Tough to respond to you Ricky when my response posts that some folks do not agree with get censored as uncivil.

Suffice it to say that I have laid waste to your facile anti-oil, anti-Alberta posts numerous times.

Historically, many commodities and products have a "best before date". Sometimes those dates are measured in centuries, sometimes, as with fossil fuels, the dates appear to be only decades away.

Because of the looming global over population crisis, which unlike climate change actually presents an existential threat to humanity, a new mass energy source MUST be developed in the next 7 decades. Windmills and solar panels will never cut it. Not for 12 billion humans, which WILL BE  the global population in 2100.

We need to use the wealth potential we have today to give us the leverage to fund the R&D and education we need for 2050 (when the population will "only" be 9 billion)  and beyond.