Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Europe grapples with energy crunch and rising prices | DW News" video.

@freemanol Do you know that both the American neo-cons and the founders of Al Qaeda both believed that democracy was flawed because people would vote for their perceived interests (as in be selfish) rather than vote for what's best? It was one of those bizarre things that surfaced after 9/11.
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How much will you make them pay for it?
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@neliborba101 You made sense except for that absolutely ridiculous and idiotic comment about abortion.
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@user-xr4bo3ln6f I think what he means is they don't even try and hide it anymore. Governments used to say they were "for the people" or at least since things like the American and French Revolutions. But right now if you tried the "for the people" line you'd get laughed at.
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@freemanol Agreed on all but the word technocracy. I get the idea but its not as much about technical education as education based on honest historical assessment. I'm an aerospace engineer by training but work in industrial control systems AND I HATE the lack of technical education. Particularly among people with arts degrees who think because they did a science class or 2 they actually understand how things get done. My mother was a high school teacher who taught home economics but her favorite subject was history. And she taught me to put things into historical context, because it allows you to see how you arrived at a point. I'm Australian but went to college in America in the late 80s. My classmates and frat bothers had all done CIVICS. So they all had an education on WHY the US Constitution was what it is. So I got an explanation on why certain things exist from them. BUT Dub-ya Bush and his clowns defunded civics and now there's an entire generation of Americans who THINK they know their constitution and just don't. The incredible decline in the American people understanding their own country is a great case study in the consequences of defunding education.
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@reveng6705 Very sad and very true.
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@KbB-kz9qp Are you seriously asking that? The EU has some of the largest wind farms on the planet and incredible amounts of solar. The real problem is the world has been stalling on new power generation for over 20 years. A lot of the developed world has not built any new major base load power stations in that time, yet populations have kept growing. I'm Australian and we are no different to many other places. We haven't built a major base load power station since the 1990s. In the same time our population has gone up 25% and with it a higher demand for power. I'm an engineer and have been looking into this for a few years now. A major problem is that a lot of people think we can just build a power stations the same way we cars and its just not that simple. Power stations are complex and linking them into the power grid isn't like plugging in a toaster. Its actually very frustrating at just how bad people are educated about this subject. Making it worse are those people promoting stupidity and fantasy.
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@geoeconomics5629 Way to point out the obvious. You sound like a 5 year old pointing at the sky and yelling about the clouds.
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