yea dude forget fossil fuels who needs em anyway. ill tell you who: the rich 1%ers so they can drive around in hummers. forget em. imo we'd be better off as an agrarian society.
do you remember tsarist russia or the confederate south from your history classes. those are good examples of agrarian societies. both were destroyed because they were outdated for their time.
industrialization is the future. your country cannot hope to survive if its power is built on the food it puts in peoples stomachs rather than the bullets it can put in the enemy's heads. farming is no longer a viable model for society cause agrarian nations are easily conquered. industrialized nations are not.
the "rich 1%ers" are prevalent in all society models, industrial or not. in an agrarian society u would have your plantation owners and mansion holding-millionares who oversee the massive farms. just like in the confederate south. in an industrial society you instead have your company presidents and real estate giants.
societies will always have rich and poor people. even communist USSR had rich and poor people. the government was rich and the people were poor.
also lets think here for a moment: how the heck would america work today if it was agrarian?
youve got people living all over a massive country
and youve got all these farms
you need the power of industry to keep everything running. agrarian societies worked ok back when the biggest threats people faced were arrows and swords, and the communities covered only a very small area and goods were easy to transport.
but its now 2014 not the middle ages. you have a large country that requires a massive industrialized transportation system to get food to everyone if you wanna feed em. how are you gonna keep those trains, trucks and aircraft running? you need fuel, and lots of it. where do you get it? from oil drilling and coal mining. if the tracks for the train are electric, you need a power plant to give the jump to that 3rd rail. so at this point you need even more fuel, to keep the power plants running. you need all this fuel as well to get the transport ships working if your "agrarian" society is gonna be able to trade your crops with other countries. you need the machinery to make crops plentiful and quickly enough to keep a good food supply (btw those all require power too). you have to use powerful machines such as 16-inch guns, rockets and jet planes to keep enemy nations at bay. you literally NEED the fossil fuels to keep the country going. there is no viable alternative. u cant power cars efficiently, safely or as compact-ly with solar, coal or nuclear.
