Massive development opportunities in India, page-46

Oil converted into plastic, pesticides or fertilisers are fine from a climate change point of view. So long as the energy used for the conversion doesn't come from fossil fuels and all gases created during the process are captured.

It is a well established fact that global temperatures are rising causing ice to melt and this is changing the coast lines.
If we keep burning fossil fuel forever, you live near the coast and are within 216 feet see level, your property value will drop (and that of the businesses you invest in).
Check out.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2013/09/rising-seas-ice-melt-new-shoreline-maps/
sure it says 5000 years, but the rate of change is accelerating, and those within 10 to 20 feet will obviously go first. DOYR.
But why spend money trying to protect property. Better to spend the money on the cause instead.

For some other learning check.
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/teach/activity/graphing-global-temperature-trends/
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/teach/activity/graphing-sea-level-trends/

So of course renewables have to be the answer, otherwise the global economy has reduced opportunity.
It is much easier for FBR to build on land than it is on ocean.