In This Nuclear World, What Is the Meaning of "Safe"?

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16. My answer

Most of the anti-renewable posts here address technical aspects of renewable energy I simply don't care about any more. They typically do not address the issues I have come to understand as being central to the entire human relationship to energy: the fact that energy enables growth, and the high probability that all new sources will tend to be additive rather than "displacive".

I don't argue for or against any particular non-fossil technologies much anymore. This is because I don't think that's the real issue as far as the future for life on this planet is concerned. Regardless of their relative merits and demerits, non-fossil technologies of all kinds do nothing to address what I see as the core problem, which in its baldest form is "human growth in all its dimensions".

I'm frankly no longer convinced that the core problem is addressable. But whether it is or not, simply introducing more energy from different sources does not move us in that direction. For that reason, neither fossil fuels nor any of the proposed alternatives have my support.