Well, so much for scientific research in Antarctica…it’s about to be a war zone.
Death to Oil
Add this to the list of “problems the wealthy make sure we don’t solve.”
We should make a song, death…death to the O.I.L… Same tune as Bob Vylan did in Glastonbury.
I fear it’s rather death for, or death by oil for us.
Death
toby Oilfixed
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
daily temps are between 35-45°C
Not in Russia. :D
They will one day.
Maybe, but look at that territory, it’s perfectly positioned to unlock more agriculutural land northward as the world further south burns. I bet the Russian ruling class is eagerly awaiting this scenario that would put them towards the top of the pile in world powers. They may end up in a position to pick and choose from waves of immigrants.
Problem is that it isn’t that simple. The general fact we do know is that the atmosphere will be more energetic and, on average, the globe will be hotter. The more energetic facet means more weather activity and changes to various currents. So local weather may be more impacted by a change in wind current temperature wise. The change in storm activity may be the bigger concern rather than temperatures. We don’t know how much viable agriculture will be possible or exactly where it will be. Also there’s the question of soil quality. It’s a dangerous gambit to assume a straightforward “Lots of snowy land now means lots of agriculture in a warmed globe”.
200K?
Hey everyone, check it out, this guy still has some optimism left!
A larger nation with a massive population like India or China will unilaterally employ some kind of geoengineering project long before it gets to that level of lost profits.
Likely it will be some kind of massively risky atmospheric particle seeding to reflect some percentage of sunlight, which could have unknown consequences down the line.
I have seen the Animatrix. We all know where this is going.
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
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.
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?
Yes. Duh.
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.
So, because they can’t use it, we should take it?
No. But they aren’t refusing to sell it. They just don’t have it. And are under various sanctions by the US, EU and most south American countries over human rights abuse so they probably couldn’t sell oil anyway.
Actually it’s kinda ironic that Venezuela is under sanctions for human rights abuse but not the Gulf states.
Oh and I wasn’t actually trying to go anywhere with my comment but I do realize how it sounds now. But I am not in favor of invading anyone
Is THAT why we have an aircraft carrier off the coast?
Yes.
Winter is coming.
More like perpetual summer
Not for much longer, given the current events.
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.
Kind of like a runaway diesel.
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.
And then an immediate ice age!
Ffs, just fuck off, Russia.
It’s amazing how we always find ways to speedrun our downfall.
Hey what is this we? Don’t bring me into this. It’s always the same few assholes at the top doing it all
Is it not incumbent upon the rest of society to stop a maniac when he threatens to burn everything down? Inaction in the face of evil is complicity. We all need to start organizing for the revolution.
Sorry, a lot stuff happens whether we want it or not. And it affects us all.
We? Bring them behind the shed in my back yard and ‘we’ won’t have this problem.
I’d happily eat some long pig to reduce the overabundance of whiny bitches with money.
Now, see, this is what we are not allowed to talk about. But it leads to this.
Who put the barrels there!!!
More to the point, what will the consequences be of that much carbon being repatriated into the atmosphere? I hear that Siberia has had some awfully hot, miserable summers recently. It’s likely not going to go over well with the climate problems Russia is having.
Hmmmm.
We are cooked guys
Billionaires caused this
We have been cooked for a while. I don’t think there’s anything after well-done, except burnt.
This is incredible
It shall be called the Maillard Era.
Lmaoooooooooo
After well done it’s “congratulations”.
Well done and approaching burnt quickly.
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?
Show me a single country capable of extracting this oil who cares. There isn’t one. This is a capitalism problem, not a Russia problem.
Oh for fucks sake.
Just for context, the US uses around 7 billion barrels per year. Can keep the SUVs going for the better part of a century.
Trump’s about to liberate Antarta… Aunt Tart… Antitartica… the place where the polar bears live!
Fun fact, though you may have known. Arctic basically means “of the bear” because of the northern position of Ursa Major (bear constellation, also the Big Dipper). Antarctic means “not of the bear”. Because of how words work, it’s also Arctic = “north” and Antarctic = “anti-north”.
Also pretty fun coincidence that the northern one is the only one with actual bears.
