My Thoughts
We are not dependent on crude no matter how we are sold on that idea. Just like we are not dependent on dirty energy. The problem is that this faux dependency has been carefully crafted and controlled. We see the same sensibilities mirrored in other areas of commerce such as big pharma and agricom, etc.
So then, we don't need to use crude from the ground as our only resource to produce any products. We live in an age where we can synthesize what we think we need using clean, sustainable resources as the starting point. (plastic van be made from plants for instance. We must redesign our entire global economy to mirror the importance of sustainability and health to the overall ecosystem .
Also it is important to note that we must no longer forge ahead without proper impact assessments or we will continue to create gross imbalances that affect us, and the planet at large, in very negative ways.
One must realize that people in high places are creating "needs" in the human psyche where they never used to exist. This programming feeds off of human emotions and a fragmented psyche. These addictions are created and then fed while other's prosper off this.
Consider these things and you will soon see that we have bought into an unnecessary reality, a reality that is out of balance and is parasitic in its current nature.
Consciousness and awareness must extend past our coded addictions and we must adopt a new sustainable and healthy means to create and live or we will die.
Science will never save us because currently it has been tethered by special interests and greed.
It all starts by taking responsibility of our minds and undue all the programming that exists within them that biases our world view. Our collective is currently under mass hypnosis.
*SNAP*