We have grown used to our luxuries – spending our heritage. Spending down our no

We have grown used to our luxuries – spending our heritage. Spending down our normative capital. And we have been able to spend it down only because of a temporary technological advantage. We have inserted tremendous risk into our civilization by assuming that the economic advantage of fossile fuels, upon which industrial and post industrial modernity is built, is something that we can perpetuate – which seems at least possible – and that we will retain our advantage over the rest of the world, and that all others in the world will not equilibrate that advantage – which seems impossible.

The problem is that we cannot exit the risk that your assumption places on the rest of us, while you can internalize the opportunity of your preference without exporting the risk onto us.