chp1: reword fossil fuel burning since 1993 stats

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@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@ Since the 1980s, the green movement has been on the back foot. In stark contrast
 to the legislative successes of the 1960s and 1970s, in the last few decades,
 the social-scale demands of the green movement have broadly not been met.
 
-Human beings have burned more oil and gas, and almost as much coal, since the
-Kyoto Protocol was signed in 1993 than between 1800 and that time
+Human beings have burned as much oil and gas, and almost as much coal, since the
+Kyoto Protocol was signed in 1993 as had then been burned since 1800
 [@owid-fossil-fuels; @energy-inst-2025; @smil-2017]. Once upon a time,
 environmental campaigners declared that 350 parts of carbon dioxide per million
 in the atmosphere ought to be an uncrossable red line: last year, the figure