As the primary source of climate change causing emissions most of the known fossil fuel reserves must be left in the ground. If we want to have a chance of staving off the worst impacts of climate change we have to radically reduce our emissions. We must keep temperatures from rising above the upper threshold limit of 2 decrees Celsius above pre-industrial times. Our current trajectory is rapidly burning through our carbon budget and pushing us towards a 4 to 6 degree temperature increase. The only sane response is to stop ongoing exploration for new reserves and limit the extraction of known reserves.
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