Without fossil fuels we’d not have had progress. We’d have wood fires to cook, no AC, lots of missing modern inventions.
Now if fossil fuels were made illegal or were used illegally, sure. But it’s not like the gov outlawed them and now they are seeking damages.
If you want to sue, sue Jane Fonda and her then allies who misled people, corporation and government resulting in 50 lost years of nuclear power progress.
Fossil fuel co's knew from their own research that their product would bring disaster to the planet at incomprehensible scale.
Rather than make the knowledge clear and available to buyers, they chose to lie and deceive the public.
The result: fraud, false advertising, arson, and pollution on a global scale. All of those things are very fucking illegal and for very good reason.
What is and was a viable (working in reality) alternative for the last 50 years or so?