@mnalis @Kuttenfunker @art_histories @Katika @tante But thanks to generations of "environmentalists", nuclear is a dirty word. Investment in fusion research is a fraction of what it was in the 80s. Even new fission plants cannot be built in most developed countries.

I'm sure this argument, "Even though we're losing this war entirely, we still don't need this huge ally of nuclear power," will continue until it all collapses.

@mnalis @Kuttenfunker @art_histories @Katika @tante

Here it is, almost fifty years later, and we've emitted well over a trillion tons of CO2 since then, and the emissions are still increasing exponentially.

The IPCC's predictions where we don't kill the planet requires some new massive and cheap source of non-emitting energy bigger than all the existing ones put together so we can suck CO2 out of the atmosphere.

Only nuclear power, in the form of fusion, could possibly be that source.

2/

@mnalis @Kuttenfunker @art_histories @Katika @tante

This is the same argument we started with.

Your plan is the one we have been doing for generations now, and it has resulted in steady, exponential increases in CO2 emissions.

There has yet to be one year when the new renewables added even counterbalanced the increase in fossil fuels from the previous year!

I had this exact argument in the 1970s when someone argued that renewables would soon make nuclear obsolete.

1/

@georgemonbiot.bsky.social I simply can't imagine how frustrating it must be to be you. You have a global voice, you have accurately predicted all these events, events which many of us suspected would, true, but you trumpeted it.

And then crickets. You warned us, they did it anyway.

Thanks for doing this. Some battles are so important you have to fight them even though you are likely to fail. (One of Obama's many mortal sins was that he didn't understand that.)

@joenoonan.bsky.social "Please take care of my books."

I'm having a hard time not crying at this one.

@markhburton @Kuttenfunker @art_histories @Katika @tante

We can certainly agree that a managed energy descent would be the best way. And honestly, we know that isn't going to happen.

So nuclear will delay the inevitable, but make the final result somewhat worse.

Given the horribleness of humans, perhaps it's not worth trying to eke out survival a bit longer that way.

@mnalis @art_histories @Katika @Kuttenfunker @tante

Oh, yes, if there's one thing we can agree on is that AI (and cryptocurrencies for that matter) have negative value to humanity and should be stamped out with extreme prejudice!