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Re:EU experts to say nuclear power qualifies for green inves... by jay_kyburz on Saturday March 27, 2021 @03:51PM (#26605034)
I would like to do some more reading about this, do you have any links? The wikipedia page is a little light on detail.

I agree that we should have food security for everybody, and I agree that if we don't provide everyday people with power for heating and cooking they will just start burning things again which would create a bigger disaster.

But when I look around me I see massive amounts of waste in every sector because electricity is so cheap.

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Re:EU experts to say nuclear power qualifies for green inves... by michael1999 on Saturday March 27, 2021 @05:06PM (#26605629)
The world population at the beginning of the 20th c (i.e. before the oil age) was ~1B, which was the highest in all of history. We are currently ~8B, on our way to 10-14 by the end of this century.
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Re:EU experts to say nuclear power qualifies for green inves... by jay_kyburz on Saturday March 27, 2021 @06:39PM (#26606248)
Absolutely agree that arresting population growth should be a number one priority.

Update: Thankfully, it looks like it has started to slow. https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/

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Re:EU experts to say nuclear power qualifies for green inves... by biren34 on Monday March 29, 2021 @04:20PM (#26627665)
The best resource I can think of offhand is the book "Overshoot" by William catton. It has a pretty strong political bent to it that I don't agreed with. But despite that, it frames up the problem of energy quite well.
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Re:EU experts to say nuclear power qualifies for green inves... by scatters on Saturday March 27, 2021 @04:50PM (#26605522)
Look at your own body. Half of the nitrogen in your body tissue - in particular, in protein - was clawed from the atmosphere by the Haber process. There is simply no replacement for industrial society.
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