Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "I wasn't worried about climate change. Now I am." video.

  1. There was a quote attributed to Jonathan Haidt that went: "There's this cacophony where the Radical Right and Radical Left just scream at each other while the rest of us trapped in the middle are exhausted." Until we can get the Radicals on BOTH SIDEs to STFU and let the rest of us get on with doing what we can we are stuffed and the future is bleaker than bleak. And in that list of people who need to STFU I include all the M0R0Ns running around claiming there technology is going to save the planet. I am an engineer and there is no one technology that's going to save the planet. Solar, Wind, Nuclear, Hydro - NONE of then by themselves are going to solve much at all and certainly not the planet. Its going to be a combined effort. Also in the transition a lot of the greenies are going to need to STFU on fossil fuels because we just can't do some things without them. We just don't have enough Lithium to make all the batteries needed for cars so a lot of other vehicles like tractors will still be running on diesel for decades to come. What we do need is to clean up how much they emit which is doable. So the clown brigade can just stop screaming at the farmers because we all need to eat and their lives are hard enough already. Aviation wont be getting away from fossil fuels either but they can use more efficient engines and burn cleaner fuels. My degree is in aerospace engineering and there's simply no easy fix to aviation unless we ban air travel or make it so expensive only a few people use it. The Greenies are also going to have to back right off on nuclear because there's no other way to underpin the power grids and keep them secure and NOT emit billions of tons of CO2 by burning coal. What we do need is some SERIOUS INVESTMENT to make nuclear power more efficient and NOT produce the waste that it does. ON THE NUCLEAR SUBJECT the nuclear industry needs to STFU and stop avoiding telling the truth about what is and isn't possible. They need to be honest about the costs and be realistic about delivery timeframes. Right now nothing they propose is possible because there's a major shortage of enrichment capacity. Forget SMRs or normal large scale reactors there's no way to fuel them. America can't even supply its own nuclear industry at the moment and has to buy fuel from the Russians. YES that country that is bombing Ukraine. Of all the trade restrictions that are on Russia one that's not been touched is enriched Uranium for reactor fuel. Sorry to all for the rant but damn as an engineer I am so bloody tired of all the clowns who just open their mouths and let noise come out.
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