For over a century, fossil fuels have been the favorite villain of the political left. Oil, coal, and natural gas are the boogeymen blamed for everything from melting ice caps to hurricanes to your aunt’s asthma. But what if I told you that the biggest threat to humanity isn’t fossil fuels—it’s the lies we’ve been told about them?
Here’s the truth the climate cult doesn’t want you to hear: fossil fuels haven’t killed us—they’ve saved us.
Let’s do something the green elites hate: look at the numbers.
In the 1920s, before fossil fuel infrastructure was widespread, more than 400,000 people a year died from climate-related causes—floods, droughts, storms, extreme temperatures. Fast forward to today: fewer than 10,000 people die annually from those same causes worldwide.
That’s a 98% drop in climate-related deaths, even while the global population has more than quadrupled.
How is that possible?
It wasn’t wind turbines or solar panels. It wasn’t a Greta Thunberg tweet or a John Kerry jet-set speech. It was fossil fuels—and the civilization they empowered.
Fossil fuels made the world stronger, safer, faster, and more prepared.
They power the satellites that warn us about incoming hurricanes. The computers that model disaster response. The ambulances and helicopters that race toward danger. The generators that keep hospitals alive when the grid fails. The desalination plants that turn saltwater into drinking water. The supply chains that move food, medicine, and clean water where it’s needed most.
Without fossil fuels, none of it works.
But fossil fuels didn’t just help us respond to disaster—they helped us prevent it.
Natural gas-derived fertilizers created the Green Revolution, allowing us to feed billions who would’ve otherwise starved. Oil-powered tractors and transportation networks transformed how we plant, harvest, and distribute food. Fossil-fueled factories, refrigeration, and logistics saved entire continents from hunger.
And during the pandemic? Don’t kid yourself. Everything from vaccine development to ventilator manufacturing to distribution to storage depended on fossil energy. Even your Zoom call needed electricity powered by something more stable than a rooftop panel.
Now try telling a mother in Ghana, or a farmer in rural India, that they don’t deserve those same benefits because you feel guilty driving an SUV. That’s not just elitist—it’s energy apartheid.
If the climate crowd really cared about saving lives, they’d be demanding more fossil fuel access for the world’s poor—not less.
But they don’t care about saving lives. They care about controlling them.
It’s why they want to take away your gas stove. It’s why they throw tantrums over a Ford F-150 but ignore the private jets lining the tarmac at Davos. It’s why they tell working-class Americans to “go electric” while subsidizing a $70,000 Tesla for their upper-middle-class donor base.
And it's all built on a convenient lie: that fossil fuels are inherently evil.
Yes, fossil fuels emit carbon. Yes, the planet has warmed modestly over the past century. But here’s the part they never tell you: the benefits of fossil fuels have dramatically outpaced the risks.
In fact, the only reason we’re even wealthy and secure enough to debate climate change is because fossil fuels already fixed the more urgent problems: starvation, disease, cold, heat, clean water, transportation, and access to modern medicine.
Take fossil fuels away, and you don’t solve climate change—you spark a global humanitarian crisis.
- No tractors = no food
- No trucks = no medicine
- No heat = cold deaths
- No A/C = heatstroke
- No power = hospitals go dark
But that’s not the scary fantasy the Left sells you in their dystopian climate documentaries. Instead, they promise a mythical green utopia where solar panels power skyscrapers, Teslas line the highways, and no one ever gets their hands dirty digging anything out of the ground.
It's a delusion, wrapped in privilege, sold with fear.
Meanwhile, the rest of us live in the real world, where the bills need to be paid, kids need to be fed, and winter still gets cold.
Here’s the good news: the fossil fuel industry has never been cleaner, more efficient, or more innovative than it is today. American oil and gas companies are leading the world in reducing emissions—even as they produce more energy than ever before.
That’s a win. But it’s one the green radicals don’t want to celebrate—because it doesn’t give them more power.
And let’s be clear: this is all about power. Not the kind that turns on your lights—the kind that lets bureaucrats and activists control your life. Your car. Your stove. Your thermostat. Your mobility. Your decisions.
They’ve fossil-fooled the public for decades. But the data tells the real story:
Fossil fuels didn’t doom humanity. They delivered it.
They didn’t cause the climate crisis—they helped us survive it.
And if we abandon them too soon, the cost won’t be environmental. It will be human.
Would you like to see proof of all the good fossil fuels have done? Go to Oilfacts.com and investigate for yourself.
It’s time to stop apologizing for the engine of human flourishing.
It’s time to stand up for energy freedom.
And it’s time to remind the world:
We weren’t killed by carbon. We were saved by it.