The important fact in this is: You can make electricity hundreds of ways, — petroleum can only be made by one. If climate change were really an emergency every country would be building nuclear power plants.,(reply>), Indeed, nuclear is in fact the only true green energy.  Fossil fuels are nature's battery.  And finally, there is NO climate emergency as our adaptability exceeds any threat from a changing climate as evidence from climate related deaths declining 98% in the last 100yrs.