/sci/ - Science & Math

>>8615305
>Fisheries

By getting rid of fossil fuels, fish population will skyrocket since fishing boats will have to go back to using sails.

>clean water

Just don't drink the water when the sun don't shine & the wind don't blow. No power means no municipal water purification.

>agriculture

Fossil fuels power farm equipment, ship produce all over the planet, and makes fertilizer. Without it, we would go back to an agrarian culture and subsistence farming.

>forestry

Forestry is fucked.

From https://www.reference.com/business-finance/average-wheat-yield-per-acre-1800s-2236c69dbfd107fa#

"The average yield per acre of wheat during the 1800s was 13.3 bushels per acre, according to the USDA. By contrast, the average U.S. wheat yield per acre in 2013 was 47.2 bushels per acre."

Pic source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2012/08/16/a-brief-history-of-u-s-corn-in-one-chart/?utm_term=.e7eaab4f1f70

The pic is a graph of average corn yields per acre over a course of about 150 years and how modern farmings cause yields per acre to skyrocket.

Without modern farming methods, more forests will be turned into farm land because we're not letting billions of people starve to death for the trees.

>tourism

Fossil fuels has been a boom for tourism. Fossil fuels opened the world to us commoners. In the past, people would never venture more than twenty miles from the place of birth because they would have walk or ride in a horse-drawn carriage and that the latter is assuming they could afford one.

>and many other big businesses are being damaged in the interest of fossil fuels.

Cheap, reliable, and abundant energy made modern Western civilization possible. Without it, we would still live like our pre-Industrial Age ancestors.