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The bing dianisty wrote:

We're burning the world, not only by burning fuels, but also by releasing greenhouse gases into the environment which will eventually make the earth so hot it BURNS

For sure, though it's often worth being careful with statements like that, as the holes in it can be jumped on by climate change deniers. We're also shifting away from the "global warming" explanation, as while that's part of the process, the scientifically illiterate are likely to misinterpret that, and - for example - say that they'd quite like it to be warmer. Climate change of course increases all sorts of extreme weather, including cold weather events.

Even if it's less snappy, I prefer to say that there's overwhelmingly strong evidence that anthropogenic climate change exists, which is causing increasingly unpredictable weather patterns, which already has a significant human and economic cost, and which will eventually be an existential threat if not to human life than to human society at the least. It's also expert opinion that we're moving too slowly and being too unambitious in addressing this.

So while we may not burn in our lifetimes, it's entirely possible that we'll starve, drown or fall into poverty as a result of environmentally irresponsibility.