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I think the real problem with this discussion is your dismissal of his points behind "so called environmentalists being politically savy", and the false "we are

by orf 8y ago

I think the real problem with this discussion is your dismissal of his points behind "so called environmentalists being politically savy", and the false "we are no where near developing a replacement for oil, so why bother". That and the atrocious spelling, but I expect you're not a native speaker so that could be overlooked. The long and short of it is if we throw up our hands and say "let's flood every developing country with endless cheap oil, suppressing the critical development of greener energy sources" we are up shits creek even moreso than we are now.

ThomPete 8y ago
I am not dismissing anything or throwing my hands up. I am simply stating what the reality is. You are welcome to come up with better solutions for the poor countries but before it becomes anything but intentions I at least are not going to be supporting any attempts to keep them from getting access to those resources. You are right I am not a native speaker however I meant what I said. Nothing false about us being even close to being able to replace fossil fuels and I would challenge you to provide a single piece of evidence that proves otherwise. Wind and solar provides around 1% of the world energy needs even with improvements we would not get much further than 5%. If you don't see the absurdity in environmentalist yelling the sky is falling because of co2 and then turn around to fight nuclear then we just live in two very different worlds. Neither wind nor sun is close. And to illustrate that point this summer Denmark had a heat wave. Denmark who runs mostly on wind had to buy energy from Germany who then in torn had to use coal because 1) they are closing down their nuclear powerplants and 2) they could provide it with solar. This is the reality, not the one you read about in the media who are mostly keeping hysteria to a max while completely ignorning the actual reality of energy. I didn't say we shouldn't do anything, but the solution is NOT wind and solar.

by orf 8y ago

ThomPete 8y ago

I am not dismissing anything or throwing my hands up. I am simply stating what the reality is. You are welcome to come up with better solutions for the poor countries but before it becomes anything but intentions I at least are not going to be supporting any attempts to keep them from getting access to those resources. You are right I am not a native speaker however I meant what I said. Nothing false about us being even close to being able to replace fossil fuels and I would challenge you to provide a single piece of evidence that proves otherwise. Wind and solar provides around 1% of the world energy needs even with improvements we would not get much further than 5%. If you don't see the absurdity in environmentalist yelling the sky is falling because of co2 and then turn around to fight nuclear then we just live in two very different worlds. Neither wind nor sun is close. And to illustrate that point this summer Denmark had a heat wave. Denmark who runs mostly on wind had to buy energy from Germany who then in torn had to use coal because 1) they are closing down their nuclear powerplants and 2) they could provide it with solar. This is the reality, not the one you read about in the media who are mostly keeping hysteria to a max while completely ignorning the actual reality of energy. I didn't say we shouldn't do anything, but the solution is NOT wind and solar.