Let's look first at the burning fossil fuels, either burning coal or burning natural gas.

CA Most of American electricity comes from burning fossil fuels.

We have the reckless burning of fossil fuels along with other greenhouse gasses, so called,

Fossil fuels won't be available forever.

People who sell us fossil fuels.

We're running out of fossil fuels.

The continent is abundant in fossil fuels.

Those fossil fuels have built our civilization.

We're very hungry for fossil fuels too.

This vast continent is abundant in fossil fuels.

Fossil fuels are abundant in that vast continent.

And all the burning of oil and coal and gas, all the fossil fuels, have changed the atmosphere greatly.

Can't we make cleaner burning cooking fuels?

The global food supply relies heavily on fossil fuels.

Saving the cost of fossil fuels Reduction of CO2

We've stumbled on another energy bonanza in fossil fuels.

What we are doing globally is causing climate change as much as, I believe, fossil fuels, and maybe more than fossil fuels.

And what's more, this guy doesn't need a wire connected all the way back to a power station burning fossil fuels.

CA So how does the world get off fossil fuels?

What is life after fossil fuels going to be like?

A transition from fossil fuels would be a monumental challenge.

Modern agriculture uses land to turn fossil fuels into food

The biggest single cause of global warming, along with deforestation, which is 20 percent of it, is the burning of fossil fuels.

This shows that the effect of the Sun's variations on climate is overwhelmed by the increasing greenhouse gasses, mainly from burning fossil fuels.

You see, fire made us human fossil fuels made us modern.

But energy policies continued to focus on finding more fossil fuels.

Shouldn't we be thinking hard about how to get off fossil fuels?

Imagine if we said, Oh yes, we can get off fossil fuels.

I think it will be more if we keep burning fossil fuels, perhaps even five meters, which is 18 feet, this century or shortly thereafter.

And when people talk about life after fossil fuels and climate change action,

As most power is generated from fossil fuels, this is not a solution.

We've used fossil fuels, essentially, to grow plants in soil that is otherwise dead.

There are other options for generating power as well, which don't involve fossil fuels.

Fossil fuels are needed for farming equipment, transportation, refrigeration, packaging in plastic, and cooking.

Since the Industrial Revolution, humans have been pulling those fossil fuels out of the ground and burning them, activating the stored energy to make electricity and power engines.

The world does not need any more pipelines to wed our addiction to fossil fuels.

So fossil fuels and collective learning together explain the staggering complexity we see around us.

You know, so humans generate about 12 trillion watts, or 12 terawatts, from fossil fuels.

When this happens, they're compressed under tons of pressure, and turned into carbon based fossil fuels

Chemicals derived from fossil fuels, or Petro chemicals, are essential in the manufacture of countless products.

Is it possible to replace a system based on fossil fuels with a patchwork of alternatives?

We look at where the emissions are coming from they're coming out of our tailpipes and smokestacks and so forth, and we say, okay, well the problem is that they're coming out of fossil fuels that we're burning, so therefore, the answer must be to replace those fossil fuels with clean sources of energy.

We're burning fossil fuels at such a rate that we seem to be undermining the Goldilocks conditions that made it possible for human civilizations to flourish over the last 10,000 years.

You know, we're pumping out lots of CO2 into the atmosphere, from fossil fuels, from cement production.

But instead of placing a rising fee on carbon emissions to make fossil fuels pay their true cost to society, our governments are forcing the public to subsidize fossil fuels by 400 to 500 billion dollars per year worldwide, thus encouraging extraction of every fossil fuel mountaintop removal,