This is most defensible in places that have low per capita emissions, low
historical emissions, and where new
fossil fuel use will address basic
human needs instead of luxuries.
Given
historical climate and physics, the only way that implicit endorsement means «implicitly endors [ing] that
humans are a cause of warming» where «a» is something less than primary (that is, over half) is if there is some as - yet undiscovered sink absorbing
human CO2 emissions and, simultaneously, an as - yet undiscovered source of CO2 that is releasing it into the atmosphere - and moreover, the CO2 from this mysterious source just happens to possess a carbon isotope signature that matches
fossil fuel CO2 as a total coincidence.