Major Point #1, start here.

If you take away nothing else form this blog, take this:

Every single aspect of our modern industrial society is connected with, and wholly dependent upon every other part of the "system," which only exists because of fossil fuels. 

Let's let this sink in a second. 

In order to have manufactured "things" it is necessary to have factories. In order for factories to produce anything they must have machinery, raw materials,"electricity", fuel, etc.

To provide that machinery, we need more factories. For the raw materials, we need mines. To work the mines we need more machinery, railways, roads, and vehicles. In order to power all the factories, we need power plants, a power distribution system, railways, ships and trucks powered by oil, and so on.

None of these things can come into being at all, without the roughly three million pounds of non-renewable minerals we dig from the ground for every American born. mineral-baby

"Earth First, we'll mine the other planets later" is not a joke. Continuous mining is the very foundation of every part of a technological society. Even so-called "renewables" like solar panels and wind generators are made directly from coal and oil, just like everything else.  There's no such thing as "clean, carbon-free" technology. In order to have any technology, we must first have industry, along with the pollution and resource depletion it causes. 

All the world's factories, mines, mills, gas and oil wells, refineries and power plants are all dependent on each other's products to keep working. They are all connected together by a network of power lines, pipelines, ships, trains, trucks, railways, and highways - forming a gigantic, global "super-factory." The interdependence of all technologies and infrastructures means that every single "thing" we don't make ourselves with our own hands is in fact the end-product of all the industries in the entire world, combined.

Let this sink in:

Every single "thing" we don't make ourselves with our own hands is in fact the end-product of all of the industries in the entire world combined.