Name: 石油中毒が車や飛行機だけの問題ではない理由｜FT (Why our oil addiction is not just about cars and planes | FT)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T10:38:45.000Z
Duration: 2 min 8 s
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程度の副詞

In 2019 we used up 100 million barrels just like this every day, mostly to fuel the cars, planes and ships that move us and our goods around the world.

分詞構句

Then there's a fair bit that goes into power generation, heating buildings and other industrial uses.

This is where our oil dependency becomes even less visible because, honestly, it goes into all kinds of stuff.

If you refine the oil, you get products that go into making petro chemicals, such as s early on properly Pet Thames Aaron, everything from plastic bags, toothbrushes and food packaging to detergents, paint, cosmetics and mattress phones.

More than 16% of oil demand will be for non combusted uses.

Like these alone on a big share of that is put into single use plastics.

This is definitely an area we can cut back on in here.

There's about to pass the consumption if our video team is anything to go by.

Most societies are starting to take reciting seriously, at least in the West.

On benders everywhere are promising to use less plastic, but this isn't the whole story.

Petro chemicals used in clothes High street retailers make and sell huge amounts of synthetic materials on a whole other branch called aromatics are essential for drugs like aspirin or ibuprofen.

Making these products isn't quite the same is burning fossil fuels as we doing cars, but they do cause pollution hazards off their own and to manage plastic waste.

It's often incinerated, releasing carbon dioxide emissions at that 0.2.

This is why we need to be honest with ourselves about how embedded oil is into what everyday life experts say.

We'll have to curb our addiction to oil if we're going to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.

 But kicking our habit is going to take more than just changing the cars we drive. 