Environment & Energy

This is not a situation where a little bit helps. The perfect is not the enemy of the good in this case, since the so-called "perfect" means the survival of human civilization. The green washing just kicks the can down the road (and the road is getting shorter and shorter) and let's people stay in denial.

If we are going to insist on the productivist growth economic model when discussing energy policy, then the only sane alternative is nuclear power. If not that, then the choices are A) cook the planet, B) a dramatic reduction in the demand for energy.

But it is just magical thinking to imagine that we can continue on this path of an ever-expanding economy and an ever-growing demand for energy without serious consequences and/or hard choices, and no amount of reduction of carbon footprints or development of alternatives is going to help. We are decades down the path of the "reducing emissions" and "energy efficiency" illusions, and the problem gets worse and worse. You can't solve the problem with the same thinking that caused the problem in the first place.