Did you know that it is already possible to run almost every machine/item in this world 'requiring' fuel with solar energy? Did you know that it is the rich business men who don't want to lose their profits who hide this from the public? Most of them alre
I would hate to imagine a world without fossil fuels.
soraenRainForest/Andes/6426
Yes, it might actually be better than the world today. Only when the threat of losing our supplies of fossil fuels is greatest will humanity develop and utilize technologies that are not reliant on fossil fuels.
JesseRainForest/Andes/6884
No, the Creator made things perfect and all things have purpose but what Mankind uses oil for such as running vehicles is wrong. Imagine a world without vehicles. No roads, no polution, healthy children and healthy adults(their muscles woul
RainForest/Andes/1029
Yes and sooner or later, ready or not we're gonna have one. I think Tesla
technology could be the answer to an environmentally stable, earth friendly
civilization.
Bill
It would be nice, but I think society is to tied into the useage of them for power. I would like to see wind power systems made more affordable. I would like to see the subsoil heating and cooling systems made more affordable, more useaqge of with corn additives etc.
chenad68
I want to move my homepages to Geocities and do not have one yet
I am a big fan of Star Trek so I can picture a perfect world with no pollution and 'clean' fuels fairly easily, but I can't see how we are going to achieve such a goal.
madmarchhareRainForest/Canopy/6377
Yes. There is only about 50 years of fossile fuels left and if we continue to take this for granted we will run out.
(jon)/RainForest/5395">
Yes, and it is possible. There are engines right now that use special
solutions and are Earth friendly, but oil companies don't want to go
bankrupt, thus the coverup.
(The Shark Man)/RainForest/Canopy/3018
Yes
(Jen)
Yes, although it will be hard for many people to accomplish
?
YES!, I am studying the carbohydrate economy and cooperation rather
than competition as the defining relationship.
(bob ewing)/RainForest/Canopy/5016
We must face that. By 2050 there will still be fossile fuels, but with an incredible prize.
Many people will have horses. Bicycles for personal transport will be used for longer disances.
We will have pedal driven busses like galleys. Industrial processes will come back to manufacture
mixed with some high tech electronic devices. Recycling and resusing of old material will become
normal.
There will be more ballons than planes, cars only for ambulance, military and police and
for some high politicians. Dumping grounds of the 20th century will be mined for reusable materials.
(bolo)
/RainForest/1650
It would be very difficult, but it isn't impossible. At that point, when this world is so terrible, that nobody wants to live here,
it could be possible. But not yet.
(Linda Degerth) -
/RainForest/Canopy/1414
Yes. I think it would be a better place. Alternatives can be found. If not, people managed in the past
before they were discovered, why can't they again? Just because the world won't be as "cushy" as it is now should be irrelevant.
(Angela Fleury) -
/RainForest/2035
Yes. I believe that we can find alternate
inexpensive ways to make energy. Just by collecting the sun's energy or using wind energy (which is still used, but not much) the
world can have cleaner fuel supplies and more energy if harnessed correctly.
(Bastet) -
/RainForest/9926
Yes, if we can divise a way to use the energy produced by the sun, or the water, or a new source of energy that we have yet to discover (maybe somethind derived from
atoms or even electrons).
(anonymous) - ?
Yes because natural gas and oil is going fast. I heard that if we recycle plastic that we can get oil out of it and maybe we can
use that oil somewhat.
(Angela Longstreet) -
/RainForest/Vines/5376
Quite easily. We need to stop our reliance and use on fossil fuels. There is other technology available at present to surpass its use, it is
just greed that is keeping the use of oil high.
(The Lorax) -
/RainForest/Vines/7105
Yes, I can definately see the world switching more to solar energy and other more effecient and clean resources.
(Darren Grafius) -
/RainForest/Vines/2788
Why not? People lived for hundred of years without fossil fuels and they managed to do fine. We are just spoiled.
Daniel Millikin - ?
Yes. There are alternatives, but money
controls everything,and if the product would not make money and make somebody rich, will not be in the market. Politics is also included.
Electricity would be a good alternative, but as long as oil is in the market, I don't think it would happen. about twenty some years ago somebody
invented a engine that runs with water. I never heard about it again. Imagine what would that engine done to the oil market. Politics,
politics, politics.
Pablo Merel - ?
It could be an improvement - we
can still travel anywhere in the world electronically - and no pollution!
(arachne) - ?
Well sort of - 2005BC or a little more clearly 1378AD (studied it a little to learn what life was like without fossil fuels. We are way beyond that.
We have knowledges that are a convergence of needed awareness at a time of a convergence of needed change. Yes, I can imagine the technical part of it to about 75%.
The social has greater gaps because no matter what humans are humans. There is are no utopia there is living and learning.
dragnfly-?
I can imagine a world in which man doesn't rely on fossil fuels to exist
(Dolphinus) - /RainForest/3965
I can imagine a solar world. A techno world with clean power. But I cannot imagine HOW. Engineers and techies will come up with it. This is my dream.
(Patricia Pennell) -
/RainForest/6046
No, oil is natural. It comes from so many places: corn, hemp, soy beans,
Mother Earth. Plastic is a petrolium based product. The internal combustion engine has been
obsolite since 1930's. Time to change it.
(John Diewald aka Chuie) -
/RainForest/Vines/1284
easily -- we've really only been using petroleum for a century or two. Just look in your history books
to see what a world "without oil" looks like
(Dave Botkin) -
/RainForest/5653
Not easily. It is so bound up with the fabric of international culture that any alternative, compact energy-source is difficult to
envisage. As a chemical feed-stock, it is even more important, thus doubly precious.
(Eehor) -
/RainForest/Vines/5900
Yes the sooner we stop depending on oil and it's products the better.
(Jeff Schumacher) - ?
no, but I also know it is possible to run out...we need to take more care and find better ways to transport it so we can keep out oceans
clean and sea life living.
(Laura Morrison/Big Red) -
/RainForest/5151
We have only recently been using oil at the rate we are. By recently I mean last 100 yrs. It would not be easy but it could be done.
(Aaron Dullinger) -
/Area51/Corridor/2756
Not really. We use oil for so much, it would be difficult to imagine a world without it
(Jaala) -
/RainForest/2913
Yes, I can imagine the world without oil, and sometimes think that the old ways
were the better ways, even though it was harder to do things, transportation
would be slow, though I know too that the oil that we use, was given to us as a
gift, though feel as thought it is abused.
(guinny) -
/RainForest/3683
Yes and i'd wish it come soon. There are so many things that are cleaner then oil.
(Myst) -
/RainForest/Vines/1009
No not completely. Or at least not in the near future as in the above question.
(Mark A. Salazar) - /?
He He funny. Where those rich people dont have a chance to have a car or plane,
they have to walk. he he.
( ? ) -
/RainForest/3418
Ready or not, I think the day is coming soon. A small minority will be prepared, the rest will not. While it would clearly be a mistake to
romanticize "primitivism," I think that it is entirely defensible to acknowledge that traditional native cultures have a proven track record
of sustainability. Many indigenous peoples have traditional cultures that offer rich and rewarding ways of life. There is much to be
learned from such societies. We are in our present mess largely because urban-industrialism is proving itself to be unsustainable. Modern
civilization, however pleasant it may be for the elite 20% of humanity, is ultimately an evolutionary dead-end in my opinion.
(Ed Huefe) -
/RainForest/7696
yes, most new inventions coming out are things that run on electricity.
Now we need to find a way of producing electricity without oil
burning like hydroelectricty.
(anonymous)
Civilization in the beginning lived just fine without oil, if we go back to basics we
can find solutions to living without oil! Have we gotten so spoiled that we can't
abandon gasoline-powered engines in search of other alternatives?
(DeafChick) -
/RainForest/9412
Oil makes our cars run and creates our electricity. We wont be able to have the
cars as currently designed, but we will need an alternative to electricity. Natural
power (wind, water) will provide some, but the nuclear alternative will become
imperative. Solutions to make the nuclear approach "safe" will have to be devised,
but yes, we will need to (and will) find an alternative to our current use of oil.
(S.Fotopulos)
YES!!!!!!Hemp products can REPLACE the oil industry and leave the dinosaurs to RIP!
(Luna7) - /?
yes...if people do not try to conserve our natural resources
that will be the outcome
(dum_dum) -
/RainForest/6452
I realize that oil has become a necessity, but oil has also created a lot
of damage to our world.
(Dawn) - /?
Not really. Unless some
magic technology can find a substitute that is sustainable and not
detrimental to the environment.
(Ilze) -
RainForest/4226
I can imagine a world that no longer relies on oil reserves
to provide energy. I can imagine the corporate entities that have blocked
research and the implementation of alternative energy sources finally
giving up their financial and social stranglehold on the environmental
well-being of this planet, and every living thing on it.
(Deb Burkey) -
RainForest/7597
i new the world existed before the use of oil was discovered
so why should i not be able to imagine a world without it
(parag) -
RainForest/5290
Sure. With the advent of the electric car, it just might be possible. We'll have to see what the future brings
us.
(Gabriele Endress) -
RainForest/8710
