SamuelRSmith said:
Without cheap energy, we have nothing. You have any idea how much energy is required to mine metals? Or to provide you with a meal (growing -> transportation -> producing and packaging -> transportation -> retail -> transportation -> storage and retail -> transportation -> home and final preparation (perhaps refridgeration, or freezing, cooking)) ? In many parts of the world, cheap energy is required to keep people from freezing to death. Others, without energy-intensive desalination, have no water to drink. Huge amounts of energy are also required to provide you with healthcare, education, etc, etc. And this is before we get to the obvious stuff - lighting homes, powering electical consumer goods, etc. What costs us a couple of dollars today in a meal that can be prepared in about half an hour would be beyond the finest meal a king could have afforded to enjoy two hundred years ago, with a hundred men working on it. This is only possible through cheap energy. So, yes, until a cheap energy source can be found: fuck the world. It's either that, or fuck humanity. |
Going further than that, I have to ask:
What is so bad with nuclear vs. other power sources?
Compared to other fossil fuels, it is much cleaner and has a massive power:fuel ratio which means we have to damage the earth less to acquire the raw components for the fuel.
Compared to renewables, it will ensure that people that can barely afford energy can afford to heat their homes, learn from the internet, and do many many things. Eventually, we may be able to switch from gasoline-based cars to electric cars which would exponentially increase power requirements, which can't be met by renewables without catostrophic costs.
Back from the dead, I'm afraid.