Contrary to popular belief, coal isn't made from dinosaurs. It's much older than that. We're burning peat bogs compressed over 300 million years. And it's taken less than a century to burn through most of it.
Map: USGS, 1985
Map: USGS, 1985
The biggest regret - aside from, you know, destroying the planet - is that this one time gift of concentrated energy wasted. Fossil fuels weren't used to create thriving, livable communities.
They were squandered on paving roads and parking lots, building shopping centers and subdivisions, filling them all up with single-use plastic, and fueling our cars to commute alone to work. Everyone lost - the working class, Indigenous peoples, the planet.
In a just transition, renewables will not merely replace fossil fuels, continuing the waste and exploitation that industry built. It's a transition not just of energy, but power. Community-owned utilities, powered by renewables, will begin to heal our world.
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