Those in the best position to estimate the damage of continuing use of fossil fuels generally urge leaving as much of them as possible unused, in the ground, forever.
But all those reserves are owned by amazingly powerful and frequently utterly unscrupulous interests.
Remember what happened to Khashoggi and how abject Trump has been and remains toward the utterly tyrannical and murderous Saudi Kronprinz (prince héritier) Mohammed Bin Salman.
It is those interests, way more powerful globally and in America than the tobacco industry ever was, I would guess, that created global warming denial and made it a key part of the toxic sludge that is the ideology of today's Republican Party.
All those interests really don't give a shit about what happens to everybody else.
They figure they can run the planet into the ground and they and their descendants will always be able to shift all the costs and damage onto us hoi polloi.
The only way we win is for some at least of the rich and super-rich who are not themselves on the fossil fuel gravy train to make common cause with the rest of us.
And that might not be enough, either.
Particularly since it seems to be uncontroversial that, the more we leave unused in the ground, the poorer all of us collectively will be, especially in the short run.
Update.
But I may never know.
I'm 70 and not in totally good health.
So, there's that.
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