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This article is not wrong but it is incomplete. It has failed to engage with proven ecological problems associated specifically with continued burning of fossil fuels: greenhouse gas accumulation and air pollution. Burning fossil fuels is not innocently beneficial so costs and benefits have to be considered. There is no way the future is bright for Earth civilization without restructured fossil fuel use. That's just obvious. It seems insurmountable. It seems impossible. But I am betting my career that we will find better ways. As good ancestors, we ought to create a better inheritance. The time of fossil fuels has passed.

The only way forward is a sustainability transformation. But this transformation is a surgery. There will be pain. There will be bleeding. There will be risk of infection. But there is healing value in cutting out a cancer if we proceed with minds wide open. We are responsible for this surgery. We can only go forward if we do the work to phase out dependency on fossil fuels because sustainability is worth it.

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