As the Times recently reported, burning all known reserves - and dumping the resulting carbon emissions into the atmosphere - would raise the average surface te

As the Times recently reported, burning all known reserves - and dumping the resulting carbon emissions into the atmosphere - would raise the average surface temperature by more than 16 degrees. That's more than enough to trigger a the world's sixth great extinction and wipe out life as we know it, ourselves included. Factor the cost of combustion into the cost of extraction, and you'll find that our useable reserves are rapidly approaching zero. Indeed, we may be in overshoot already. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/09/upshot/if-we-dig-out-all-our-fossil-fuels-heres-how-hot-we-can-expect-it-to-get.html http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/09/upshot/if-we-dig-out-all-o...