Well, so much for scientific research in Antarctica…it’s about to be a war zone.
It’s amazing how we always find ways to speedrun our downfall.
Born too late to die in war over oil, born too early to die in war over oil, born just in time to die in war over oil.
Shhhh no talk only die
The issue with fossile fuels or more generally oil dependency isn’t the limited availability. It’s that they’re massive deposits of stored carbon and if we start burning them they get released to the atmosphere. With the oil deposits already known if we use them all, we’d have killed the planet long before the last drop of oil is used. We don’t need any new deposits.
You think Russia cares?
A war to extract the oil from Antarctica would be difficult to win.
A war to stop extraction from Antarctica would be easy to win.
FFS lets move on from trying to suck every last drop of oil out of the earth’s crust.
Just for context, the US uses around 7 billion barrels per year. Can keep the SUVs going for the better part of a century.
Assholes can roll coal for a century.
Oh for fucks sake.
So, they were looking
Death to Oil
Add this to the list of “problems the wealthy make sure we don’t solve.”
I fear it’s rather death for, or death by oil for us.
We should make a song, death…death to the O.I.L… Same tune as Bob Vylan did in Glastonbury.
Ffs, just fuck off, Russia.
Hate to break it to you but Russia isn’t the only member of the petroleum industry.
Yeah, but this is about Russia, Mr. Whatabout.
Because no one else would touch those reserves except Russia? It is moot anyway because it is in the UK claimed region. Sorry it isn’t as simple as you’d like it to be.
https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/no-the-russians-havent-found-oil-reserves-in-antarctica
Fuck the West…
You happy now?
But Russia is the one doing oil prospecting while masking it as seismic research which obviously skirts the intent of the Antarctic Treaty, which other countries actually do honor
Reported discovery: A Russian company, Rosio Oil Exploration, has claimed to have found large oil deposits in Antarctica.
Location: The alleged discovery is reported to be in a region of Antarctica claimed by the UK.
So the UK would be the one extracting it. It may be complete bullshit too.
https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/no-the-russians-havent-found-oil-reserves-in-antarctica
It’s almost poetic. The oil got there because there was once vegetation on Antarctica, that decayed over the eons. Now the thirst for oil will lead to heating the planet enough to melt the ice again.
To be fair, the antarctic continent wasn’t always at earth’s southern pole, it was at a lower lattitude, so implying the overall earth temperature is why it wasn’t covered in ice is less significant.
Kind of like a runaway diesel.
And then an immediate ice age!
The year is 2070. Common daily temps are between 35-45°C. Only 200k humans survive globally, and barely.
They still use fossil fuels to generate electricity…
A truce has been reached between the forces of AE-X11 Musk and the virtual consciousness of Jeff Bezos as they vow to unite against the tribal council of the former Russian Federation to secure the remaining oil reserves in the desert plains of the Antarctic continent
If there’s only 200K people left, everything is going to be fine … for them.
The robots are relying on fossil fuel too
Human population
nowbeing only 0.00025% of its peak, their greenhouse gas emissions are now insignificant, so, the planet isnowfinally recovering, fast.Edit : obviously I’m not a writer.
daily temps are between 35-45°C
Not in Russia. :D
They will one day.
Hmm sounds like a good reason to have the ice all melt and speed up us dependency on it - USA 2026 probably
Who put the barrels there!!!
https://www.worldometers.info/oil/
There are 1.65 trillion barrels of proven oil reserves in the world as of 2016.
So another extra 30% or so.
Yeah, we already have more than enough to ruin the world.
For comparison, Venezuela has the world’s largest oil reserve at 303 billion barrels.
Winter is coming.
Winter is coming.
More like perpetual summer
More like the Permian era summer.
And the reason why they got bad hombres on boats these days.
And Trump is flexing the military at them.
Venezuela has the world’s largest oil reserve
Is THAT why we have an aircraft carrier off the coast?
They’ve got oil and they’re NOT sharing it with rich people?
I mean to be fair they just don’t have the infrastructure to extract it anymore. Economic sanctions since the Obama years have mean that the equipment to extract crude has become hard to maintain.
Yes. Duh.
Not for much longer, given the current events.
This could be a good thing for venezuelan fishermen.
I read somewhere that a large amount of the refining capacity in America is geared towards dilbit like the one that used to come from Venezuela and now from Canada. Perhaps Venezuelan fishermen’s oil is still cheaper in the end and therefore more desirable.
Won’t somebody PLEASE think of the cocaine?
Not that Venezuela has any. But I think we can all agree that legalizing cocaine and doing lots of cocaine is the most important issue of the day.
COCAINE!!!
Think of it as a weight loss drug for rich people.
