(2) We're going to be running
out of fossil fuels anyway in the next few centuries; without alternatives, global economic prosperity will be endangered much sooner than that.
Not exact matches
Thus
anyway, the total biosphere removes more 12CO2
out of the atmosphere (which is at -8 per mil d13C), while
fossil fuel burning enriches the atmosphere with 12CO2.
Since we were running
out of oil
anyway, environmentally motivated efforts to limit
fossil fuel consumption and increase our use
of renewable energy boasted the additional virtue
of being inevitable.
We're eventually going to run
out of «
fossil fuels»
anyway.
Anyway, the point is, they just don't know if and by how much people will reduce their GHGs in the future, or whether they will just continue emitting at higher and higher levels in exponential fashion, untill we run
out of all
fossil fuels.
I don't see a way
out of this: we're already going to do it
anyway, i.e., burn enough
fossil fuels to exceed the 2 degree limit, and within a few decades, to the 4 degree limit.