Matt Damon: ‘Game is rigged’

[JackRiddler]

77. Sure, it requires understanding and vision.

Any time I use that phrase (conversion of energy infrastructure), the first most easily available new energy sources I think of are

1) efficiency gains (especially in buildings) and elimination of at least some bullshit consumption (starting with the maintenance of a costly military empire), plus some viable tech like smart grids, etc.

2) railways and mass transit measures, carfree zones in urban areas

3) less work, less sprawl & commuting (a book's worth of details)

followed by

4) solar power generation and and solar hydrogen development

5) wind, tides, non-destructive hydro and geothermal

Clearly this means an enormous shift in societal values.

Clearly, if it doesn't intend and actually seek to implement an end to fracking, MTR, shale-oil, ocean floor drilling, internal combustion in urban areas, and power generation from hydrocarbon burning within a transition time of a generation, it's bullshit.

I'm sure we can agree on the outlines. As to whether it will work - whatever. You got a better alternative? Does it involve depopulation?