When your electric car can drive across country without days of delay charging...
When battery technology improves so that it doesn't create immense amounts of pollution to produce them, or dispose of them... When the energy needed to acquire the raw materials, then build, and finally retire, a windmill (or solar panel) is finally less than what it produces...
When the power grid can handle charging cars without fear of blackouts...
When the electric grid no longer needs coal powered power plants...
When the payback for a solar system is viable without other taxpayer's money...
When all solar systems can cope with weeks of continuous snow, clouds, and storms and still work 100% off grid...
When you live without petroleum related products like road asphalt (back to dirt roads), plastics, lubricants, pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, window screens, vinyl (siding, windows, soffit vents), roof shingles...
When you no longer need commercial farms for food planted and harvested with diesel tractors (and everybody is self sufficient with chickens, cows, and farms in their back yard) (apartments and cities suddenly don't get food from closed farms) and you have the time to tend to all that stuff...
When you throw out your gas stove, propane grill, backup generator, furnace, diesel construction machines (crane, backhoe, grader, plow, cement truck, dump truck)...
When you never again can have cataract surgery using replacement plastic lens, or get an IV delivered via a plastic line, or an injection from a plastic syringe...
When you can buy a cell phone, appliances, furniture, TVs, and nearly ever other device that is housed in a plastic case or has internal plastic parts...
When you have a viable alternative to tractor trailers, railroad engines, cargo ships...
When the cost for any of these alternatives is lower than today...
THEN come talk to me about how your "solutions" effect life in future centuries, and be sure to cover how life would be so much better and affordable right away... should fossil fuels get banned in the name of climate change.
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