They aren't wrong. Fuel is machine food. The more machines we have doing work the more a single human can output. That means cheaper food and products. Which

They aren't wrong. Fuel is machine food. The more machines we have doing work the more a single human can output. That means cheaper food and products. Which, in turn, means wealthier people. The history of petroleum use has been towards cleaner fuels. I see no reason not to stumble forward as we always have. Using petroleum is how wealthy nations became wealthy. We aren't going to stop rising nations from doing the same. If we did without a way for them to leapfrog oil, to produce energy, we are doing a ladder pull. The more recent transition to natural gas for energy production is the single greatest reduction in emissions in the last 20 years. We are using natural gas from oil wells now. However, it can also be easily produced from organic waste. Closing the fuel loop would be a huge win.