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Contemporary petropolitics has similarly given itself over to endlessly repetitive formulas. Whatever the question, more fossil fuels are the answer. Grid failure in Texas? We should probably become even more reliant on natural gas. War in Ukraine creates global energy shock? We should be expanding oil production to overcome it. Petropolitics has entered its senescence: regardless of changing circumstances and advancing environmental degradation, it drones on with the same talking points. The petropolitical imagination is paralyzed, completely unable to comprehend a world beyond the glories of its youth. [...] Petroculture today is a gerontocracy hallucinating that the splendor of the mid-twentieth century can be preserved forever. Of course, in the thick of it as we are, it still seems impossible for many to imagine a world after oil. Yet when the oil economy finally collapses, [...] I suspect the majority of us will simply shrug at how obvious it was that petroculture could never last.

dominic boyer, "Fossil Gerontocracy, or What Sticks Us Where We Are," from No More Fossils.