With apologies to Aesop, maybe the earth is a golden goose with life sustaining atmosphere and fossil fuel the golden egg energy that has powered our needs since the industrial revolution. Scientists agree using all the golden eggs in reserve kills that goose as we’ve known it.
The farmer killed his goose to see if there were more eggs inside.
“Foolish man!” cried his wife. “If only you had understood that those who are greedy for too much sometimes lose all.”
A hydraulically fractured Aesop’s Fable