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Environment & Energy

Erich Bloodaxe BSN

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2. I should have known the eventual goal of the diatribe was to badmouth renewables.

Reply to NNadir (Original post)

Mon Feb 29, 2016, 10:32 AM

Feb 2016

And pump up the only type of fuel NNadir likes, nuclear.

The ONLY thing that will 'work' in the long run is fewer humans. We consume too much, and there are far too many of us. Energy is just one piece among many in which we've overwhelmed the world's ability to compensate for us.

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Nature: "Current models of climate economics assume that lives in the future are less important... [View all] NNadir Feb 2016 OP

Well, in conventional economic terms, the more of something there is . . hatrack Feb 2016 #1

I should have known the eventual goal of the diatribe was to badmouth renewables. Erich Bloodaxe BSN Feb 2016 #2

So called "renewables" aren't working. NNadir Feb 2016 #3

I haven't committed suicide, but I have deliberately remained childless. Erich Bloodaxe BSN Feb 2016 #4

Well, it may be quixotic, but since I KNOW there is another way, I feel an ethical... NNadir Feb 2016 #6

Hyperbolic discounting of future consequences is probably programmed into our DNA phantom power Feb 2016 #5

+1E100 GliderGuider Mar 2016 #8

K&R. That headline alone needs to be recognised far & wide. Nihil Mar 2016 #7