When we think of revolutionary solutions to drop carbon emissions to near zero there is one cheap solution that has mass appeal.
Modern Molten Salt reactors don't run the risk of Chernobyl. They are easily marketed to normies due to the reduced cost. I dare say even righty Zig Forums wouldn't bitch about it.
For the Green New Deal to have any chance of success, this has to be a part of it.
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Leafs are still salty that the Pajeets used the CANDU reactors we sold them to make nukes.
it'll never be a success since it's just a policy suggestion with no legal teeth
More importantly it makes the critical mistake of thinking that we can implement these plans while maintaining and even improving quality of life.
Shit like the huge job creation and infrastructure construction programs it envisions will lead to even more consumption, and more carbon emissions
The real truth of the matter is that these proposals are 60 years too late, 60 years ago they would have been great, but it's too late now and blade is already falling on everyone's necks. We're at the point where we need to make massive changes at gunpoint world wide to even slow down or prepare for how devastating climate change is going to be.
That said, there's most likely going to be nuclear war just from the stresses and more open resource wars/grabs that are going to enter hyperdrive mode this coming decade
We're probably only about 5ish years away from a Blue Ocean Event, once that happens shits going to spiral out of control
Faster than Expected
So would a patchwork of the current generation of nuclear, wind, solar, and geothermal be able to hold us together until we can go full nuclear? I'm worried we'll still be relying on oil for another 10 years then it's too late for most of the earth.
realistically no, oil is used for way more than just pure power, it's far too integral to industrial human civilization
patchwork solution of nuclear, wind, solar and so on would be a good baby step but not enough and too little too late
We build a fleet of spaceships and take 100,000 people with us to a different star-system, leaving everyone else to die on Earth
I thought the oil use for plastics and medicine was tiny compared to its fuel usage, sure we can't actually stop using oil but we could at least prevent the 4 degree Celsius rise
I love Wall E
I guess that does fit Wall-E more than the VN I was referencing lol
the real problem isn't even the 4C increase, it's the stresses of smaller increases that's going to get us. Small changes here and there can and will lead to massive collapse due to how industrial civilization is organized. A few degrees here and suddenly you no longer have pollinating insects since they all died or you have a drought causing crop loss. Failures like that are already happening and will continue to happen, leading to cascading failures up the chain. It won't be globalized either, but localized
and these small things leading to fast collapse aren't 50 to 100 years out, they're years to a decade out.