Gemma ⭐️🔰🇺🇸 🇵🇭 🎐If I appear at times to some to be opposed to so-called #renewable #power (which isn't "renewable" in any meaningful sense of the word; it relies entirely on non-renewable resources), it is because I fully understand how this #technology works, and in no way is it an equal replacement for fossil fuel power generation, for a variety of hard scientific factual and practical reasons. Our first and final approach must be #conservation, not #consumption.
ZeroGravitasIndeed you do appear to be opposed to so-called #renewable #power - your reasonings sound very similar to what #bigoil uses to dissuade us away from sun/wind/etc.
Of course it relies on non-renewable resources to begin with, but you have to start somewhere, right?
I do agree with you that as long as our #hypercapitalist society puts #consumerism & #consumption first, we will forever be addicted to the readily available #fossilfuels .
#ClimateChange #environmentalism
@ZeroGravitas What I am opposed to is misinformed people who are trying the shove the idea down our throats that we don't really need to make any substantive changes to society, just substitute solar, wind, geothermal, etc. for fossil fuels, and everything will somehow work out because "more and better science/technology will save us from the consequences of our previous mismanagement of science/technology", and this is not only just not true, it's empirically proven to be not true.
@ZeroGravitas There is no "renewable technology" that will permit us to continue the current levels of per capita resource consumption. There is no "renewable" power that can possibly have as much effect for as little investment as simply not using power because you don't need to use power.
If you think that sounds like "the reasoning of Big Oil", I would suggest you may be harboring prejudices that you would do better to abandon.
@ZeroGravitas Someone who describes themselves as a "progenitor of space diaspora" is not a person with whom I am going to engage in debate, because by saying so, you are clearly indicating your inability to think rationally.