1 month old It's unavoidable: we must ban fossil fuels to save our planet. Here's how we do it RolandGeyer This article is more than 1 month old Twice before, humanity has mitigated severe global environmental threats. In both cases we did this not with ‘cap and trade’ systems, taxes, or offsets, but with bans ‘We can only afford to burn one twelfth of the fossil fuels we have already found.’ Photograph: Henry Romero/Reuters ‘We can only afford to burn one twelfth of the fossil fuels we have already found.’ Photograph: Henry Romero/Reuters Tue 9 Mar 2021 06.16 EST Last modified on Tue 9 Mar 2021 13.18 EST