Voluntary Human Extinction Movement

[Jehanne]

I think today's environmental problems will be solved by tomorrow's technology because who wants to live in a dirty, polluted environment?  That is they will be solved if we don't destroy the world's economy by prematurely ending oil and gas use.

Blind faith in technology won't work and some people really don't give a damn about living in a dirty polluted environment so this two is a poor assumption. Fossil fuels need to be abandoned soon and the idea this is economy-ending is sheer propaganda by the fossil fuel industry to prop up their dying industry.

I admire individuals, such as the late Carl Sagan greatly, but Dr. Sagan was a futurist, who believed that controlled nuclear fusion would happen sometime in the upcoming centuries, being a source of almost unlimted clean energy. Such would certainly vindicate Western democratic capitalism, as market forces would certainly force the transition to green energy.

Sagan has been dead now for almost 30 years, and controlled nuclear fusion has, ostensibly, happened just one time, in 2021, and the researchers have failed to reproduce their results. What happens if nuclear fusion is never realized? We will go on burning fossil fuels until either they are all gone, or, we've destroyed ourselves.