Why would it be weird that it was a thing at all? Renewables have usually been more expensive than fossil fuels. We're at a point in history where we're trans

Why would it be weird that it was a thing at all? Renewables have usually been more expensive than fossil fuels. We're at a point in history where we're transitioning the human race from being 99% in absolute poverty into fractions of that. Yes, fossil fuels are not sustainable, but for the sake of bringing people out of poverty I think the reasons why we used fossil fuels will be obvious to an historian who isn't clouded by their own futuristic first-world bias.