Letter: Climate change threatens the economy

To say that the world is addicted to oil is an understatement. Oil is more than an addiction, it’s the life blood of the world’s energy intensive economy.Despite the world’s insatiable demand for what science and common sense tell us is a finite resource, industry and those that constantly require more and more of what industry can produce behave as though oil is as plentiful as the perpetual energy produced by the sun.While the captains of industry and the merchants of the ext