Imagine for a minute or two a world without oil. If so, life would be defined by unrelenting drudgery owing to the happy reality that machines powered by oil have long done so much work for us. Absent the mechanization of past and present human effort, it’s no reach to say that eating each day would be much less of a sure thing, access to clean drinking water would be a health-sapping uncertainty, our work would be incredibly primitive and most likely unrelated to our skills, and as for the internet on which you’re reading this opinion piece, forget about it.
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