Reply #4: You get it. [View All]

[Gregorian]

We had discussions about this kind of thing in an advanced thermodynamics course back in the 80's. I don't think people realize just how into this fossil fuel thing we are. Much of the renewable energy generation infrastructure is going to require a great deal of it. We're fighting fire with fire until we get to a point where we're operating totally on renewable resources.

I personally don't think we're going to pull out of this without a massive death of most of what we take for granted. Like ice caps, pollinators, regulated climate...

It's a simple equation. How many, and what they're doing. It's very simple. But we refuse to look at half of that equation. And that is why we're headed for trouble.

I'm not saying the Chinese couldn't clean up their act. That's academic.