Post Carbon Executive Director Asher Miller was interviewed by Steve Anderson, Managing Director at InfrastructureUSA.

From the interview:

It’s All About Fossil Fuels
We are heavily reliant on fossil fuels right now for providing our basic energy needs and in fact almost all aspects of society are reliant on fossil fuels. Whether it’s the roads that we drive on, or the food that we eat, the medicine we use, the clothes that we wear, a lot of that is either directly fed in by petrochemicals or is reliant upon them. So it’s definitely something for the future; our view is that it’s an inevitable future, in the sense that fossil fuels are finite resources and we are using massive amounts of them and they’re depleting, so we’re going to have to find another solution.

We built the world that we live in. The environment has been built around these fossil fuels. The cities that we live in, certainly suburbia, our transportation systems, where our food is produced and gets to us is heavily reliant on fossil fuels. It takes about eight and a half calories of fossil fuel energy for every one calorie of food that we consume. But people just look out their window, they can see the infrastructure that we built, everything from cement and concrete, and you know the buildings that we’re in, the walls, all of that is really built on fossil fuel energy.

Listen to the interview
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