Nuclear power

[Rev. Rye]

Geez, if people had the technology to teleport stuff to the sun, they would have other means of disposing of nuclear waste.

But reading this topic made me realize that there is not enough talk about science. I mean, what is the state of nuclear technology today?

But that is not so easy to answer. Unlike religion, you can not just say whatever you want, although people are trying. Like, I saw recently Bill Nye said that the solution to carbon pollution will be electric airplanes and carbon capture. And that is very naive. But who has the answer? Frighteningly, no one seems to have.

Because it’s not just one answer, but a whole raft of them. And because no one is willing to put up with long term discomfort to address the issue.

And we DO know what needs to be done, there’s just neither the political or public will to do it. Here’s a partial list of what has to happen for climate change to be ameliorated:

-Invest trillions in the change to renewables.

-Ditto public transport.

-Ditto reforestation.

-Outlaw personal pets.

-Ban concrete construction.

-Enforced vegetarian (or at least pescatarian) diets.

-Limit family size.

-Outlaw golf courses/cemeteries/amusement parks and convert that property to farmland.

There’s lots more, but politicians and industry are not going to get behind ANY of it in a significant manner because there’s not sufficient public support for it.

Boru

And this is Why I work under the assumption that we’re more or less fucked on the climate front; the measures that we’d need to take are so extreme and so unpopular that hardly anyone’s going to support them, even if it means the difference between the long-term survival of the species.