Reply #36: At this time there is no "Silver Bullet."

[GliderGuider]

Exactly. We will use every source at our disposal (including some really stupid ones that look like sources but aren't, like ethanol). That will include nuclear fission and coal. In that case, common sense would seem to dictate that activists get busy ensuring that all the power plants of any description that do get built are as safe and effective as possible, and that we organize ourselves to need as few of them as possible.

The big concern for me is that we pay attention to what is truly important. Twenty years ago it looked like energy supplies weren't going to be a bottleneck, so we had the luxury of enshrining our personal dislikes into policy without worrying that doing so might lead to tens of millions of deaths through ripple effects on agriculture. Things are different now. Like it or not, it's time we all grew up and did some math.