freebear
I oppose this 100%, I take the "ghastly future of mass extinction" very serious and my solution would be to introduce a close to zero birthrate of the extremely overpopulated species of Homo Sapiens. I do not however take this pandemic serious at all and it is NOTHING compared to what is and will happen in the "ghastly future".
We are living in a planetary wide human farm, they told us this was gonna happen! And it will happen again and again until we have devoured the planet.
If you haven't figured it out yet, if you still believe in the government's figures, I've got one thing to tell you: pull your head out of your ass. For one example, the leaders of the free world are now leaving the so called Paris Agreement, because they believe anthropogenic climate change is a hoax. Are they still telling you the truth?
Okay, back to nuclear now for a second round. We are likely to see a worldwide collapse due to many reasons, but lets blame a lot of it to the actions of the government's mentioned. Before you dismiss this premise I would like to inform that this is a major fear, and therefor a major field of research for the nuclear industry and is a major reason to why we even care about long term storage of the waste – if everything "went well", why would we care about a thousand years? if we can manage "it" now we for sure can in the future when our GDP is like risen by a gazillion percents. We must pause here, this is the thing: we are talking about waste that is extremely insanely dangerous if it would "leak" out, if this would happen our civilization would be finished, life could die out (not like we are not killing of 100-200 species a day already, but hey, gotta go faster!)
Where were we now, right: can you imagine this planet in five hundred years? and the nuclear waste has to be securely stored for hundreds of thousands of years. This is the reason they try to universal signs instead of writing the warning in plain language [1].
I am way off the article now, so Sweden and France has a decarbonized their economies? Where a the figures? I would guess without looking into any numbers, that both Sweden and France has in fact increased their carbon output since they started using nuclear power, I would go so far that I would argue that they have in fact increased their carbon output because they have added nuclear. By using nuclear power we grow our economy, the larger the economy the more carbon output.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-time_nuclear_waste_warnin...
Minimal health risk...
https://insideclimatenews.org/sites/default/files/styles/icn...
I live in the worst fallout area in Sweden and our nature is still very radioactive. Cancer rates here are of course increased compared to the rest of the country. And of course, the worst is yet to come. I believe more than 4k Swedish people have died or have their lives drastically shortened due to Chernobyl.
They are f'd, their DNA is also f'd so...
This graph is more fun but not up to date https://www.methanelevels.org/
"Saves kids", yeah right. Must be just great to spend all that time in front of the tellie eaten em tater chips and drinkin that mountain dew.
Idiocracy Now!
Are you just trying to make a buck in The End Times?
I have no feedback, Mother Earth has, probably a couple of hundreds of them loops... We are screwed.
"How did we humans manage to build a global civilization on the cusp of colonizing other planets?"
No, we are on the cusp of climatological, ecological, environmental and economical disaster.
This is just our devouring of the planet, nothing to see here. Now reinsert head in ass and press play.
I do not know where to begin, but i am facing the tongue of our mother culture. I am facing not only your arguments, i am facing an operating system. It is high time we clean our disks.
To mention a few, we now get microplastics from our tap water [1], and bottled water [2]. Reports of substantial insects loss from all over the world [3][4].
Study shows that the oceans will be dead if we continue as we do [5]. Life loses 150-200 species a day, we are currently living in the Sixth mass extinction [6], i was about to write "the planet loses", but the planet simply does care, only life do. Our way of farming is killing the soils [7], it is fake, all fake. We kill the soils and we depend on a limited supply of chemical fertilizer. People have the idea that the soils are made for this, one of the greatest lies.
How can you say that the life is better when were at 407 PPM of CO2 and counting, and we have no clue about what is about to happen. The limits in the glacial/interglacial system we've been in for the past million years are 180-280 PPM.
I could go on an on but to put it simply. All the problems we've solved are problems of our culture, that said, we have not solved any other problem and we have not solved all our problems. Our problem is that we can't stop our growth. Event if we stopped the population growth all the other charts would point straight up!
Why did 20,000 scientists give a dire warning in their 'letter to humanity'? [8] It is us, we keeps this going, we all need more stuff, more energy to take us to new highs of 'humanity'.
Far better life, yes, we work and we feed and we Netflix™. Far better than what? There was a life before domestication by, for and in our culture. We've been Homo for three million years and we've been Homo Sapiens Sapiens for three hundred thousand. Being born today is a roulette spin, there is no guarantees that your genes will match this system. Our current culture is so far off from what our bodies, minds and that small process which we call 'me' are made for.
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/sep/06/plastic-... [2] http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-43388870 [3] https://www.news-leader.com/story/sports/outdoors/2017/08/30... [4] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/04/world/europe/krefeld-germ... [5] https://www.theinertia.com/environment/the-oceans-could-be-d... [6] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2010/aug/16/nature-e... [7] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/only-60-years-of-... [8] http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/letter-to-humanity-...
We are terribly addicted to oil. One could say we sold our mother (Earth) for a shot of hubris. It took us to the Moon and the stars. It gives and it takes lives, one could think we are dealing with the Devil.
For each day we do not decrease our fossil fuel use nothing will make a difference, the fact is that the Earth is becoming a worse place for each of those days. Our culture is not only addicted to oil, there is a bigger picture. Our culture is dependent on growth, hence the addiction to energy, all kinds of energy. We will go on this way, no matter what, for as long as we can.