Oil 101: 6/14 #climateDiary
…“That is a single 42-gallon barrel of oil.
Now multiply it by the total amount we burn every year, and we’ll see what this looks like at scale.
We use around 100 billion barrels of oil-equivalent of fossil hydrocarbons per year, globally.
At around 5 years of labor per barrel, that’s 500 billion human labor equivalents – running, working alongside around 5 billion actual human workers.
100 fossil-powered ghost workers for every living one…
Jonathan Schofield
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