There is no shortage of fossil fuel resources in the Earth’s crust, no danger of imminently running out of coal and hydrocarbons: at the 2020 level of production, coal reserves would last for about 120 years, oil and gas reserves for about 50 years, and continued exploration would transfer more of them from the resource to the reserve (technically

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Getting to net zero matters, but how we get there is just as important. Put another way, different attempts to quantify carbon produce different kinds of social relations. Ceding unilateral control over these choices to corporate platforms—letting them decide which kinds of net-zero social relations to make—would be a significant mistake.

Carbon fundamentalism is another form of denial. Energy obviously matters; it’s an absolutely strategic point of intervention for shifting us to a more just society, but when people talk about renewable energy and clean energy as if the only thing that matters is reducing carbon emissions and it doesn’t matter how we get there. We say, No, it’s not

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