David HoThe 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.
Prof Dr Richard S.J. Tol MAE@davidho It's better than that.
We'll run out of oil and gas long before we run out of coal.
Switching from oil and gas to coal is as expensive and disruptive as switching to renewables, if not more so.