(August 2, 2017 at 6:35 pm)Khemikal Wrote:(August 2, 2017 at 8:59 am)Court Jester Wrote: Entire ecosystems will be whipped out by 1990…They were.....
Yeah during last 40 years population of wildlife more then halved [source], but it's not visible trough his window which is the key.
(August 2, 2017 at 6:35 pm)Khemikal Wrote: in addition to somehow convincing the world to go nuclear or better
Actually going nuclear would be really easy if we're talking TWR or Molten salt reactor. Just take a look at this two and a half minute video to see what I'm talking about
https://openload.co/f/PeAVa8PcOWU/salt_react.mp4
(August 2, 2017 at 6:35 pm)Khemikal Wrote: and retrofitting every form of transportation we use
Brazil did it in no time. There all vehicles are flexible-fuel (flex-fuel) vehicles that use both gasoline and ethanol, although their ethanol comes from sugar plants and I'm talking about future in which electricity is clean and cheap enough so that ethanol could be made artificially. It is 19th century chemistry and people could perhaps even have ethanol producing devices in their homes, when the time comes.
(August 2, 2017 at 6:35 pm)Khemikal Wrote: engaging in mass carbon capture
But we're talking about seeding the oceans with algae that capture carbon.
http://reveal.uky.edu/algae_part1_howitworks
(August 2, 2017 at 6:35 pm)Khemikal Wrote: Plopping down a nuke and driving a green car might make people feel better, but it;s not a long term plan for human survival on this rock.
The worst thing is getting too depressed to do anything about it and even live in denial. It is a good beginning but real clean up will probably come when one day people have fusion, but maybe it could be done before.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
