Environment & Energy

I've played around with the math and come to the conclusion that an E. F. Schumacher style "Small is Beautiful" world economy cannot support eight billion people.

Without fossil fuels the human population would not have grown to eight billion in the first place. We are dependent on high density energy resources.

If we don't quit fossil fuels now, billions of people are going to suffer and die as a consequence of global warming.

If we pretend we can replace fossil fuels with wind, solar, magical batteries, and other "renewable" energy schemes, billions of people are going to suffer and die from global warming, the misallocation of rarer natural resources, and energy shortages.

Like it or not, nuclear power is the only energy resource capable of displacing fossil fuels entirely, which is something we must do. Otherwise we're simply saying "fuck off and die" to a large fraction of the human population. None of us can assume we won't be among those doing the suffering and dying.