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Question: How many human beings would it take to make 1 barrel of crude oil?
Would all the fossil fuels that's buried in the earth suggest mass extermination of every living thing long ago, maybe more than once?
June 12, 2023, 11:18 a.m.
It is hard to provide an exact number since crude oil is formed from the remains of dead plants and microorganisms that were subjected to heat and pressure over millions of years. The process is not simply a matter of converting human biomass into crude oil. While it is theoretically possible to use human remains as a source of hydrocarbons for creating synthetic oil, it would not be ethical or practical to do so. Additionally, crude oil extraction currently relies on natural geological processes and deposits that have taken millions of years to form, not from human beings.
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