Question by : What is sustainable fossil fuel consumption?
If fossil fuel production were to remain what it is now (very slow), and every human consumed the same amount of fossil fuels, what would be the sustainable level of consumption for each person? Sustainable means able to be done forever. Thanks! 
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Answer by Paul
Sustainable fossil fuel is a oxymoron. No matter how little is used it will eventually run out because the amount of fossil fuel on the planet is finite.
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There is no such thing!
Fossil fuels take millions of year to produce and so even the slightest use by humans isn’t countered by the slow rate of fossil fuel production!
There is NO level of fossil fuel consumption which is sustainable.
Strong question.
Global photosynthesis (plants and the sun’s energy) break down more carbon dioxide, to make Oxygen, than what global Life can produce, so we can say;
Profit Oxygen = ( Global Photosynthesis Oxygen ) MINUS ( Oxygen Required By Global Life ).
If we do not burn more Oxygen with the fossil fuels, than the profit oxygen that is delivered by the planet, then we do sustainable fossil fuel consumption.
Likewise, if we want to burn more fossil fuel, and curb the carbon dioxide accumulation, then we need to improve global photosynthesis.
The burning of the fossil fuels, is a single equation, global scale chemical reaction taking place 24/7.
All we need to do, is to balance the reaction, so that we do not deplete the existing atmospheric
“stock oxygen” any further, by our carbon dioxide and new water waste products.
Fossil fuel is the chemically stored energy of the sun collected by photosynthesis over millions of years. Sustainable fossil fuel consumption would be to use strictly solar energy rather than energy that had been stored by nature over time.