You're listening to Ted Talks Daily, I'm Elise Hugh.

In the face of stress on our wallets, oil and gas companies push fossil fuels as a cheap

convenience source of fuel.

But do fossil fuels actually cost less in the long run?

Environmental lawyer Tessa Khan asks us to consider the true cost of our reliance on fossil

fuels in her 2022 talk from the Ted Countdown London Delima session.

After a short sponsor message.

In the decade since the world became dependent on oil and gas.

We've been through cycle after cycle of boom and bust of crisis and recovery.

In the 1970s, the 90s and now in 2022 with Russia's war against Ukraine.

We find ourselves once again in the grip of soaring fossil fuel prices that have exposed

so many countries to deep social and economic strife.

Instead of the usual cycle of crisis and then return to a fragile status quo, this can

and must be the last time that we are left so vulnerable.

Let me tell you why.

In the last year, we've reached unprecedented clarity about the fact that there is no room

for new fossil fuel infrastructure if we are to have a decent shot of limiting the warming

of our climate to 1.5 degrees.

These warnings have sounded against a terrifying backdrop of climate chaos.

Europe's rivers running dry.

Apocalyptic flooding in Pakistan.

Savage wildfires heat and drought across the world.

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