Oil-company executives and their loyal servants held a meeting at
which they declared that reducing fossil fuel use was a "fantasy", and
that we should give up on it.
Their statements appear to claim that the task is intrinsically hard,
but in fact the difficulty is created by them. The part they don't
say is that the main obstacle to achieving that goal is all the money
they spend opposing it. They spend it on misleading the public and
they spend it on the support of politicians.
If the public is "unwilling to pay for a world with less carbon
pollution," it is because they don't grasp the scope of the disaster
the current path is leading to, from fires, floods, medical problems
and failures of agriculture. By denying this, the planet roasters
lead the public to suppose that they have a painless option.