WolfQuest

Currently several countries and companies are working on thorium molten salt reactors which are 100x safer, 1000x as efficient, and produce 1/1000 of the waste as uranium reactors.

*groan*
Nuclear energy is a taboo subject here in Germany. Everybody wants wind turbines, solar paneels, biogas plants. You get muzzled if you say "NPPs are super!".
What phrase did I learned? "Only dead fishes swim with the flow!". No central, efficient power plants, but only ugly white bird-choppers standing around in our forests, roofs pasted with dizzyingly blue paneels and smelly biogas plants on the fields! Off all the lowdown, it's clear as mud why Germany is behated!
*collapse*

Arva wrote:*groan*
Nuclear energy is a taboo subject here in Germany. Everybody wants wind turbines, solar paneels, biogas plants. You get muzzled if you say "NPPs are super!".
What phrase did I learned? "Only dead fishes swim with the flow!". No central, efficient power plants, but only ugly white bird-choppers standing around in our forests, roofs pasted with dizzyingly blue paneels and smelly biogas plants on the fields! Off all the lowdown, it's clear as mud why Germany is behated!
*collapse*

isn't nuclear energy the *cleanest* though? Its just not good if something goes wrong with the plant.

I do admit that the Earth naturally goes through periods of warming and cooling, etc. I do think that some research showing that global warming is a thing is a fake (my enviro sci teacher spent like two months talking about the hockey stick graph, but I found out last year that the scientist who made said graph fudged the results on purpose or something?) This comic sums up my feelings on the subject pretty well. Whether or not you believe global warming is real (I do, but that aside), there's nothing wrong with trying to become more sustainable. Fossil fuels are a limited resource and we won't have them forever. At some point, we'll HAVE to turn to something else. I think it's a good idea to get a head start on that, and to find healthier ways of obtaining energy while we're at it.

The truth is, we're destroying priceless habitat and causing numerous species of flora and fauna to go extinct due to pollution, logging, and other things. I hate to see us choking our planet like this and I really wish the United States was eager to do more. (I think other countries are more on the ball on this sort of thing? Which is good for them, but the States are SO BIG and have such a big impact on everything that if we get our act together it'll be a huge step forward). I don't know about other places, but the US certainly has a habit of scapegoating the issue: think about how often we're told not to keep the water running when we wash our hands, or to take shorter showers. While that's all well and good and every small bit does help, you have to think about the vast acres of land being used as golf courses all across the desert, that are waters with hundreds of gallons of water a day. Wouldn't limiting the amount of water those kinds of places use be a much more progressive step towards preserving water than telling a child they can't keep the water running while they scrub their hands for ten seconds?

I dunno, this came off a bit more heated than I was going for but I have a lot of feelings about this sort of thing.

It is important to note that Global warming =/= climate change.

Global warming is a heavily contributing factor that causes the climate to change, but they are not one in the same. The following quote provides more info:

Global warming refers to the recent and ongoing rise in global average temperature near Earth's surface. It is caused mostly by increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Global warming is causing climate patterns to change. However, global warming itself represents only one aspect of climate change.
Climate change refers to any significant change in the measures of climate lasting for an extended period of time. In other words, climate change includes major changes in temperature, precipitation, or wind patterns, among other effects, that occur over several decades or longer.

Source: https://www.epa.gov/climatechange/clima ... nformation