International trade through fossil fuels is responsible for the population growth around the globe. Especially the trade of food and agrochemicals. What will happen once fossil fuels either run out (worse case scenario) or we stop using them to stop climate change (best case scenario)?
This leaves only some options:
- Use non-fossil fuel ships like in the past, which are certainly slower and lower capacity, causing famine and death
- Global production declines either way because of the damage already done. Adding to this the stopping of international trade, and you have a massive social and economic disaster.
What are the possible solutions and outcomes?
>>2347849Big ships could run on nuclear reactors.
Build the world land bridge and run trains.
If fossil fuels are indispensable for ships (or some other process), maybe you could use energy from other sources to make artificial oil from organic materials like corn or algae.
>>2347874or, electric propellers, which also work too
>>2348073were you born in 1961? this hasn't been true for over 20 years, and also you could completely stop using fossil fuels within 5 years for anything besides certain types of transportation and there wouldn't be some apocalyptic age