Did we already "break" the Earth ?
And time for another installment in the series "Common Sense, Uncommon Thinking". This time it is about good news on the Climate Change front and it is that if you are "against fossil fuels" then celebrate because their days are without question numbered. The very definition of fossil fuels is that they are not renewable, they are finite, there is some quantity of them still left and nobody is making any more of them. So the fossil fuels that exist today will be "brought up" and burned sooner or later. There is no doubt about that so why waste time focusing on it and focusing on what is fundamentally a "self-correcting problem". There may be debate over where they get burned and over what period of time but used up they will be. And then they will be done, for a few Millennia at least. The relevant next question then is has the Earth already been "broken"? Has the planet already passed the point of no return and we are doomed t...