German goals to cut greenhouse emissions by 65% by 2030 are likely to be missed, meaning a longer-term net zero by a 2045 target is also in doubt, reports by government climate advisers and the Federal Environment Agency (UBA) show.
I have one axiomatic argument I stand by, although I recognize both pros and cons.
We’ve missed our targets and deadlines and climate change is happening faster-than-expected. Infrastructure is being brutalized by weather extremes. I believe it is reasonable to assume that many regions will decomplexify as a result of the changing environment reducing the carrying capacity and energy economy. Nuclear power plants are some of the most complex technology we have - even the supply chains and maintenance are extremely complicated. When we currently plan for these installations, it is with the assumption that society will be carrying on as usual. They would appear much riskier if we had to take into account situations where resources and/or personnel may be unavailable. Those situations will be almost inevitable for some regions, but determining where and how stability will collapse is still impossible to predict.
Where there are other solutions available (including degrowth), I would first support those.
Well if you don’t support nuclear because its “too complex,” you de facto support coal, which will inevitably turn into “degrowth” as most of the world can’t support agriculture anymore, and so you will get to nod your head as 100’s of millions are “de-growthed” into starvation.
Degrowth is a dangerous ideology. For those living in rich countries, degrowth might just mean austerity, for those living in middle and lower income countries, degrowth is going to mean destitution and certain death for x percentage of the population.
I have one axiomatic argument I stand by, although I recognize both pros and cons.
We’ve missed our targets and deadlines and climate change is happening faster-than-expected. Infrastructure is being brutalized by weather extremes. I believe it is reasonable to assume that many regions will decomplexify as a result of the changing environment reducing the carrying capacity and energy economy. Nuclear power plants are some of the most complex technology we have - even the supply chains and maintenance are extremely complicated. When we currently plan for these installations, it is with the assumption that society will be carrying on as usual. They would appear much riskier if we had to take into account situations where resources and/or personnel may be unavailable. Those situations will be almost inevitable for some regions, but determining where and how stability will collapse is still impossible to predict.
Where there are other solutions available (including degrowth), I would first support those.
Well if you don’t support nuclear because its “too complex,” you de facto support coal, which will inevitably turn into “degrowth” as most of the world can’t support agriculture anymore, and so you will get to nod your head as 100’s of millions are “de-growthed” into starvation.
That’s going to happen anyway.
Then why are you here? Your horrid omnicidal wish will be, by your own admission, inevitably granted. You have nothing to worry about.
I have no such thing.
Why are you here, just to drop in on conversations and harass people?
If you want degrowth, you want to see billions dead, because that is what degrowth means.
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Degrowth means job loss. Job loss means no income. No income means no food. No food means starvation.
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Degrowth is a dangerous ideology. For those living in rich countries, degrowth might just mean austerity, for those living in middle and lower income countries, degrowth is going to mean destitution and certain death for x percentage of the population.
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Living up to your name.
Why would anyone who’s against nuclear automatically be pro coal? It’s not like the only options available to us are nuclear and coal.
That is the truth. Nuclear competes with fossil fuels, not wind or solar.