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It's crazy, we could have harnessed nuclear power and solved these issues. We should be throwing everything have at solving Nuclear Fusion too. Fossil fuels ar
by _vbnz 4y ago
It's crazy, we could have harnessed nuclear power and solved these issues.
We should be throwing everything have at solving Nuclear Fusion too. Fossil fuels are a limited resource and the energy return on energy invested is only going to get worse. We need to use this short period of easy abundant energy to find newer sources of energy (i.e. nuclear fusion, modern nuclear fission (breeder reactors and thorium, etc.) and deployed photovoltaic cells, hydroelectric dams, geothermal plants, electric transport and industry, etc.
We have the capability, and yet decades of neoliberalism have made governments and the public terrified of any medium to long-term investment. So we've chosen a new Dark Age instead.
- diegoholiveira 4y ago> We have the capability, and yet decades of neoliberalism have made governments and the public terrified of any medium to long-term investment. So we've chosen a new Dark Age instead. IMO, democracy is the enemy of long-term investment. Why start something that will not directly benefit me or my party in the next election? The incentives to long-term investments are almost zero under the logic of elections.
- jokethrowaway 4y agoThat's true, western government have an incentive to keep their power and don't do anything.. I wouldn't swap my incompetent western government for China, but the Chinese dictatorship definitely has long term vision. I think eliminating the government and letting companies come up with initiatives (and be rewarded in cash) is the only valid alternative to a dictatorship.