The Right Way to Look at the Left: Black oxygen

Oil is the “black oxygen that the modern world depends on,” said Peter Maass in The New York Times Magazine. Unlike the actual oxygen we breathe, of which there is a virtually unlimited supply, oil is not so well off.

We have been extracting oil from the ground for 100 years, and until recently, we have not begun to think about what we would replace it with when it runs out.

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