Comment by lordkrandel

Totally pointless article. Main ingredients of modern life are required to produce the cake as it is now. But nowhere in history we have seen a faster developments in materials science, where Italy leads the way in bioplastics and many more materials are being born everyday like coated insulating paper. So ofc now we can't but use ammonia cement and steel, and that's about to change. The current population has reached 8 billions because of these materials, sure, but we cannot say "impossible" when we think about the future. It was "impossible" to be efficient remotely in 2020, and we've been, without any sort of preparation. When fossil fuels will be scarce, or climate change will impose drastic laws against people's freedom, it WILL be possible and mandatory to change. We've been to the Moon qnd back in 1969, and there is no way we can say it's "impossible" to find solutions in 2022