Biden launches $6B effort to save distressed nuclear plants

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19. Natural gas will destroy what's left of our natural world.

Coal is worse.

We idiot humans have worked ourselves into a tough spot. We are entirely dependent on high density energy sources for our survival. Our world civilization will collapse without them.

If we keep using fossil fuels billions of us will suffer and die.

If we keep pretending wind, solar, and other low density "renewable" energy sources will save us, then billions of people will suffer and die.

One of the reasons I oppose large scale wind and solar energy schemes is that they will only prolong our dependence on natural gas. Natural gas must be left in the ground. It's not in any way "green" even if it supports various solar and wind fantasies.

I've changed my mind about nuclear power. I used to be a radical anti-nuclear activist. Now I'm not.

I'm still a radical environmentalist.

Some of my thoughts on this subject are posted in my journal.

This is my twentieth year on DU and anyone who wants to follow the evolution in my thinking can do that.

In the late 'seventies I was opposing all nuclear power in California, working to shut down the existing nuclear power plants and protesting Diablo Canyon. I burned an unconscionable amount of gasoline driving between San Onofre and Humboldt Bay.

I was at an anti-nuclear rally near San Luis Obispo when Jerry Brown declared "No new nukes in California" and the crowd cheered... and then did a double take realizing Diablo Canyon wouldn't be stopped.

Now I'm opposed to closing Diablo Canyon until new nuclear plants replace it.

Aggressive renewable energy schemes in places like California, Denmark, and Germany have failed. The situation is especially horrific in Germany. Many people predicted that Germany's dependence on Russian fossil fuels would end in catastrophe. They just didn't expect it would happen so soon.