NOT

NT

because:

I think the largest existential threat that life on our planet faces is human-induced climate change, so for a while I was pro-nuke because of its potential to supply GHG-free electricity.

Fukushima taught me a lot about the downsides of nuclear power: the corporate/governmental axis that supports it, the technological complexity, the probability of accidents, the lies and deceptions. and that's even before we get into the radiological risks posed by accidents and stored fuel.

I still hate coal/gas/oil more than nuclear power, but nuclear is a much easier target for elimination - especially now that we've seen inside the beast.

I used to be very pro Natural Gas. I'm not anymore. not the way they are trying to release it. Farmers in NY want it, but then they need to look for the farmers in TX that have to have their water trucked in because the water on their land catches fire. Texas farmers that look like they are quite the cowboy and probably Republican are having their water trucked in. o_O too late now..

Fracking has gotten everyone's attention, largely because the effects are immediate, concrete and perceptible. Climate change is having a harder time gaining acceptance because the treat is long-term, abstract and imperceptible.

People who "get" the threat that climate change and ecological overshoot represent - those who get it on an emotional as well as an intellectual level - recognize that it's not just our energy extraction technologies that are the problem. The real problem is in the overall level of human activity, which is based on our use of incomprehensibly enormous quantities of energy, most of it (over 85%) from fossil fuels.

The answer to the problem doesn't lie in better energy technologies, but in less human activity. Less travelling, building, digging, chopping, spraying, burning, eating... Fewer people doing fewer things with less stuff and less energy is the ultimate long-term answer. Unfortunately, as a voluntary solution that is not in the realm of the possible.

So we wait... Sooner or later, Mother Nature will bring Change to our doorstep, and ring the bell.

Look at Europe. Lots of apparent handwringing about the population decline going on there, but it's happening not through the effects of war or famine or pestilence, but basically, people aren't having as many kids now.

I argue that population control has to be a part of any attempt to reduce our carbon emissions.

Shocked!!!

Rule number one. Cover Your Ass.

And we have Russellville to fear.