The race between climate change and the fossil fuel phaseout is growing more, well, heated. Without substantial policy intervention, the planet is on track to surpass a catastrophic temperature threshold within the next decade, the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change forecasts. I have to hope human ingenuity and an instinct for self-preservation will help us make our deadline.
“Betteridge’s law of headlines” states that any news headline formed as a question can be answered in the negative.
So: will we turn away from fossil fuels in time? No.