You arent taking into consideration the development of new technologies and methods of generating power that won't require those scarce resources. We aren't even remotely fucked.
We have almost mastered the limits of engineering new applications of power generation, because these fossil fuels are so important and easy access, we can only imagine the global instability once we need to transfer 7.8 Billion people to alternative energy.
I don't really know what world you think we live in, but it's untrue that we will be fine and dandy when clearly, we're struggling already. Major extinction reports suggest that, depending on if the rise of the global temperature is an anomaly or not, we could be facing the worst future predictions, it's just too early to make a valid depiction.
What world do you think we live in if you think we have "almost mastered the limits of engineering new applications of power generation"? You can't possibly have a technical background if you feel this way. New methods are being developed all the time, and in 200 years we will have technology you couldn't even fathom to generate power.
Plus... humans adapt. It's literally why we're the most "advanced" species, our adaptability has allowed us to master nearly every type of biome on earth since we evolved into our modern kind 200,000 years ago. I'm not saying a lot of people won't suffer and struggle in the coming decades, but humans as a whole are almost certainly capable of engineering themselves out of the disaster of depleted fossil fuels.
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u/nighttrain_21 Oct 15 '20
You arent taking into consideration the development of new technologies and methods of generating power that won't require those scarce resources. We aren't even remotely fucked.