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oil is essential to our everyday life.
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In 2019 we used up 100 million barrels just like this every day, mostly to fuel the cars, planes and ships that move us and our goods around the world.
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Then there's a fair bit that goes into power generation, heating buildings and other industrial uses.
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So what about the rest of it?
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This is where our oil dependency becomes even less visible because, honestly, it goes into all kinds of stuff.
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If you refine the oil, you get products that go into making petro chemicals, such as s early on properly Pet Thames Aaron, everything from plastic bags, toothbrushes and food packaging to detergents, paint, cosmetics and mattress phones.
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More than 16% of oil demand will be for non combusted uses.
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Like these alone on a big share of that is put into single use plastics.
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This is definitely an area we can cut back on in here.
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There's about to pass the consumption if our video team is anything to go by.
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Most societies are starting to take reciting seriously, at least in the West.
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On benders everywhere are promising to use less plastic, but this isn't the whole story.
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Petro chemicals used in clothes High street retailers make and sell huge amounts of synthetic materials on a whole other branch called aromatics are essential for drugs like aspirin or ibuprofen.
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Oil is in our medicines now.
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Making these products isn't quite the same is burning fossil fuels as we doing cars, but they do cause pollution hazards off their own and to manage plastic waste.
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It's often incinerated, releasing carbon dioxide emissions at that 0.2.
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This is why we need to be honest with ourselves about how embedded oil is into what everyday life experts say.
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We'll have to curb our addiction to oil if we're going to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.
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But kicking our habit is going to take more than just changing the cars we drive.