The world will eventually run out of fossil fuels, so our choice is really between stopping their use on our own terms now or being forced to find alternatives in the future while having a terrible climate, tens of millions of deaths from air pollution and climate disasters, higher sea level, etc.
@davidho
We will, of course, never run out of fossil fuels. Long before we did, we'll run out of the ability of the planet to absorb the environmental costs of burning them. That's the limiting factor.
@petergleick @davidho yes, the Stone Age didn’t finish through lack of stone