Fossil Fuels Were A One-Time Inheritance And We Blew ‘Em

What a textbook shows about peak everything

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6 min readMar 28

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The great German apocalypse artist George Grosz

Fossil fuels are—by popular definition—not renewable. We don’t have 100 million years and 100 trillion plants to bury solar energy in liquid batteries under solid rock. Fossil fuels were a one-time inheritance from our dead ancestors, and we’ve blown them all in a few generations, on coke and…

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