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 - but the people in charge are busy making money out of fossil fuels, at the moment, so that's the way it'll stay, until it's even more much, much too late...