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Coal and gas will not run out.

Way back in early internet days, I saw an economist being interviewed about this. The environmentalists were trying to get him to answer a question about what would happen to the economy when the resources ran out. He kept insisting that they would never “run out”, instead they would become more expensive to extract, and at that point, economics would take over and someone would innovate something that was cheaper. This is of course, insane. It’s a plan to wait until things are so bad you have to do something or die. But it is exactly how economics works when you look at people as consumers and not as beings that care about the future. I hoped at that time that cooler minds would prevail, but, here we are.