Nuclear energy now provides about 10% of the world's electricity from about 450 power reactors
electricity is created in most of the western world by at least 50% nuclear fission energy.
— god must be atheist
Nuclear energy now provides about 10% of the world's electricity from about 450 power reactors.
~ World Nuclear Association. — Wayfarer
Currency is a treaty or an agreement, for sure. Stop believing in it, and it becomes worthless. Right now it's not, but if that were to happen, it would be a catastrophe, unless you're set up to be completely self-sufficient (which few of us are) — Wayfarer
stop trying to make the world do what we want it to do, but rather listen and pay attention more, and then give the world what it needs from us. — Possibility
Despite the euphoria surrounding the Paris Climate Accord the world's leaders and its people have failed to act on the promises made. Few countries have legislated to start the drastic countermeasures necessary to slow down and halt global warming.
My question is: is global warming a challenge too great for humanity to handle? Is the momentum of the growth-based capitalist system too great to slow and turn around? Is the ecocentric view of the world which could galvanise the will to make sacrifices outside our nature?
I have noticed a fatalism in many people - ie 'it's too late to stop it now' or 'I'll be long gone by then' so why bother? Is this more a view of the older generation, and are younger adults ready to rise to the challenge? But even if they are, can they convince enough of the apathetic majority to win power for radical new governments in the few years before it's too late? — Tim3003
What you are doing is taking the total amount of nuclear power plants and devide their electricity production.... — god must be atheist
The point is, global debt is at such a level that it cannot be simply absolved or forgiven. — Wayfarer
Surely we aren't doing that. We (ie. us discussing here - not mankind as a whole) are trying to find ways to let the world do what it wants, rather than assuming we have the right to alter it for our own short-term economic ends. What does the world 'need from us'? To be left alone? — Tim3003
And then we get into the whole issue of rights: ie. do we as the dominant species have the right to alter the eco-system if we want to (by design or by negligance). Or do other species have the right to their un-molested existance alongside us? — Tim3003
But what are we going to do, just sit back and enjoy the ride? — Punshhh
Where climate change tips a balance in certain systems resulting in extra emissions from sources of greenhouse gasses stored in the ground, or sea. — Punshhh
but if the mass extinction event goes to far, it won't be pleasant. — Punshhh
Also I don't think we can predict where the line is which we could cross resulting in runaway climate change. — Punshhh
So most of the large cities around the world will be unliveable. So where are those billions of people going to go, and what will they eat? — Punshhh
Also I don't think we can predict where the line is which we could cross resulting in runaway climate change. — Punshhh
Societies that maintain the ability to create vaccines will survive. The others will die out. — frank
Or in other words, humanity could easily revert to a Stone Age level of development in which perhaps 99% of the population has died within perhaps 200 years. — Punshhh
I accept that "runaway climate change" is a vague concept with varying definitions. Also that it is unlikely that human activity would result in a permanent runaway state like on Venus, but it could easily become runaway for a few hundred thousand, or millions of years. — Punshhh
The extinction of insects has already begun, and many of the evaporating species of insects are pollinators--not just honey bees, but they are the most familiar.*** — Bitter Crank
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