planet killing despot
a friend of mine described big oil as a planet killing despot. he's wrong. doubly. the planet's a ball of iron with a thin film of crud on top. it doesn't care if people crawl around on it or not. it'll still be here long after the last human sinks into the muck. i suggested civilization killing despot. he agreed. but that's still not right. we can burn all the oil on the planet and it'll cost us some 20% of the gdp. hardly civilization killing. now however, if we burn the coal... of which we have some 10-100x as much as oil... now we're talking about the extinction of modern humans.