While the quantity of fossil fuels in the ground is underestimated at several points in the video, the composition of the atmospheric layers around us is not mentioned (much). This might lead some to dismiss the concept of limits. So a portion of people concerned with the environment didn’t think about the consequences of burning because it would all end in time anyway?

Here is the brave voluntary jumper into a pool of mineral oil (or black gold, as investors call it)

A good day to remember that the rules of the Earth system are determined by physics and biology, and the rules of the economy are made up by a small group of self-interested people and could change.

– @bethsawin