Comments by "craxd1" (@craxd1) on "This country isn't just carbon neutral — it's carbon negative | Tshering Tobgay" video.

  1. First, 700,000 people can not speak for large advanced populations, as they do not have any idea about what it takes to run advanced nations that large. Also, others within the population of 700,000, may not see things the way he does. It is easy to screen people for the talk they want presented. He even admits, that they are a "small, underdeveloped, country". [sic] Second, advanced civilizations, (not small, underdeveloped, countries), need enormous amounts of power. That does not leave many viable choices, as to how that power generation is achieved. The cheapest is still the fossil fuels, which are carbon based. Third, some protest, claiming that fossil fuels, (carbon), need to be ended. What they do not think about, is where will all those millions of people, that will become unemployed, find other work? Do these protesters not understand, about how many people are employed in extracting fossil fuel? There are many types of fuel, too, from coal, natural gas, and oil, all carbon products. We know that, even with today's technology, nuclear power generation is dangerous, as great failures have happened in the US, Russia, and Japan. I have lived through most all of them. Our technology, in today's nuclear control methods, is better, but there are still possibilities for a major disaster to take place. Plus, where do you put the waste? Last, power generation, by solar and wind power, does not create but a small percentage of supply as the others, nor can it, with the current methods. Hydropower is the best, but it can only be done, using certain bodies of water, and there are not many rivers left, that can take more dams. The final stumbling block, is the wealthy, who own those fossil fuel extraction and generating companies. They are not going to just quit, especially when there is still fuel available. Plus, there are the millions of employees, who will not stand for losing their jobs, when they have no other occupation, and have had that occupation for most of their lives, with many close to retirement. I do not blame those millions of employees one bit. Just something for the carbon protesters to think about.
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  2. Elias Styner Who's going to give them employment? Who's going to retrain them? I do not believe that people actually understand just how many are employed in the carbon and hydrocarbon industries, worldwide. That effects everything from mining and drilling, oversea shipping, the railroad, trucking, power generation, refineries, automotive, and the chemical industry, along with their suppliers for all those listed. It is enough to easily bankrupt the US, and the other advanced nations, ten times over.
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  3. Elias Styner Well of course, that how it should be, and it will have to be. However, you have the fringe lunatics, that are picketing and demanding things to be done now, and they seem to not understand, nor care, what that would would do, if those carbons were suddenly outlawed, as they want. They also have no idea about what to replace it with, as nuclear power is not safe, yet, nor what we intend on doing with the nuclear waste. I'll bet that you sure don't want it underground around you, the same as I. I live in the Ohio River Valley, and we have a high cancer rate, where several river counties, in several states, received a high concentration of the nuclear testing fallout from the 40's through the last above ground tests. We actually got it as bad as those who lived in Utah, believe it or not. What they didn't get, it stayed skyward, until it made it here. It's a sorry sight, when you see the lunatic fringe, (Sierra Club, Greenpeace, etc), demand the sudden halt to these very things, especially when you have certain people, running for president, threatening these very millions of employees, along with those very industries, and promising to have the EPA pass many new stringent rules, just because of a few votes. They don't seem to care, at all, that those new rules will cost the end user, who is supplied power, natural gas, gasoline, plastics, petrochemicals, rubber, medicine, or asphalt for state highway projects (paid with our tax money), etc., nor how it well harm the people in other ways. The cost will go up on pretty much everything.
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