Fossil Fuels and the Progress Trap?

The 6th IPCC report hopes we can avoid the worst consequences of climate change, by curtailing 'greenhouse gas' emissions now. Simon Lewis (University College London and University of Leeds) admits that fossil fuels once helped human progress. He now maintains that fossil fuel companies, their investors and the politicians enabling them, have created a progress trap (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/aug/10/fossil-fuel-companies-ipcc-climate-report-governments). Using fossil fuels today, destroys any future for humans. Lewis points out that the fossil fuel industry is a powerful and complex enemy. They are not going to go quietly. Fossil fuel industries can buy some of the world's most influential lobbyists. Lewis advocates countering these lobbyists, by the raising of millions of voices. He suggests that the fossil fuel industries should be directly targeted. Political change must also take place, he maintains, to end the fossil fuel era. It is, he says, down to individuals to make the changes that drive down demands for coal, oil and gas.