Oil Barons Own the Earth

"Every day, people are using the fossil fuel equivalent of all [now nearly twice] the plant matter that grows on land and in the oceans over the course of a whole year," ecologist Jeff Dukes explained.

In another calculation, Dukes determined that "the amount of plants that went into the fossil fuels we burned since the Industrial Rev

Since that study was written we’ve burned over 50% again the cumulative amount of fossil fuels. Which means the amount of fossil fuels we’ve burned is equivalent to if we set fire to all the plants and algae grown on Earth every year for over 21,000 years. No wonder it’s getting hot.