Reply #1: You're right, of course, that we need to stop burning fossil fuels.

[Laelth]

However, I think we're being fed the "phase it out slowly" plan because we have no socially acceptable, real alternatives. Wind power can't do it, and neither can solar. Biofuels are silly. If we turned every acre of arable land in the U.S. into fuel-producing land, we wouldn't produce enough energy to replace the energy we currently get from fossil fuels ... not by a long shot, and, on top of that, we'd create a global food crisis.

Really, we currently have no viable alternative to fossil fuels ... thus the "phase it out slowly" narrative is what we're being fed.

:dem:

-Laelth