Comments by "Deborah Freedman" (@deborahfreedman333) on "Fareed's Take: Cutting carbon emissions is not enough" video.

  1. Since wind and solar are intermittent, and battery production is hardly green, we need some sort of constant power as well. Nuclear power is green, and modern plants are very safe.
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  2. So you think all the 220 million people, living in the US, produce less carbon than the single president, motorcades and all?
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  3.  @calkelpdiver  Even states with a lot of wind don't have constant wind or sunshine. Our storage capacity may improve, with time, but until it does we need a constant energy source. Nuclear power emits no carbon, and is constant. Modern plants are very safe.
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  4.  @calkelpdiver  Sure the sun comes up every morning, of course places with a lot of cloud cover see less energy during the day, and none at all at night when power requirements rise in cold climates. At least spent nuclear fuel is reburied, not shot into the sky.
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  5.  @tstocker6926  Germany is actually burning more coal than before, because they are, unwisely, reducing their reliance on nuclear power. Look it up, German carbon emissions are on the rise.
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  6. Yeah, like stopping human population growth.
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  7. He never mentions the main culprit in climate change, too many people. All the things that drive climate change are less, if there are less people needed food and manufactured goods, and transportation. People always point a finger at developed nations, yet they are the ones that have gotten their populations under control, where a family has 2 or fewer children. It is in the countries that have increasing populations, where deforestation is occurring. And the more mouths to be fed, the more carbon is produced. In 1920, the world population was 1.9 billion, now it is 7.9 billion. That is six billion more mouths eating food, the production of which emits carbon, and requires more land cut out of forests. Unless the overpopulation crisis is address, climate change cannot be.
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  8. You realize that cryptocurrencies are far from green, but rather produce much more carbon than any other form of currency.
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