The race between climate change and the fossil fuel phaseout is growing more, well, heated. Without substantial policy intervention, the planet is on track to surpass a catastrophic temperature threshold within the next decade, the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change forecasts. I have to hope human ingenuity and an instinct for self-preservation will help us make our deadline.
Will we turn away from them in time? Yes.
Either we all die off from using them more and more until we roast the planet, or we keep using until we run the planet dry of them and still roast. Either way the industrial revolution was a mistake.