Yes, it’s all about money. New nuclear power plants are economically infeasible and the utilities won’t buy them. The new nuclear power plants have had multi-billion dollar cost overruns and decade long construction delays. New nuclear and thermal power plants require a huge amount of water for cooling and have to be located near a
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This chart shows the 9 Planetary Boundaries and how they have been breached. Some don’t look that alarming but *anything* past the green is bad. The Novel Entities is especially troubling. https://www.iasparliament.com/current-affairs/daily-news/breach-of-planetary-boundaries
If the Antarctic and Greenland ice melts, it will cause 10 meters of sea level rise. If the AMOC stops, it could throw Europe into a mini ice age. If the rainfall in the Amazon rainforest turns to drought there are large areas that would become savannah, and become a net carbon source. If the
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Those who are concerned about the use of fossil fuels are typically concerned about transportation and fossil fuels use in homes and industries. But they tend to ignore the fact that humans use a large amount of fossil fuels to make fertilizer to grow food. Without fertilizer there would be global starvation. Along with other
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Barnard talks about very important changes to decarbonize industries. Only One Industry Can’t Survive Without Fossil Fuels
Climate change disinformation and how to combat it – .PDF https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/annurev-publhealth-090419-102409
This author is a psychologist but he is not conservative with his criticism of how slow and “care less” the governments are when it comes to stopping global warming. He’s in the UK but his assessments apply worldwide. https://medium.com/@JacksonDamian/watering-down-water-b400e64bdf48
Where I live, in Orange County, California, I see a lot of EVs, mostly Teslas, on the roads and in parking lots. I would guesstimate by the amount I see and by the map that it’s 25% or more. Which makes me very happy because the EVs are helping to save us from death and
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I live here in Southern California, and I hope and pray that California is successful. But I don’t think it will be called a victory. Looking at reality, Big Oil has, since finding out from their own scientists in the late ’70s, based their business on a deadly, unsustainable business model. And they’ve ignored the
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