Elec wrote:I note however that the majority of your sources come from the USA and deal with the problem in the USA.
Yes, the thread is on
Obama, President of Sustainable Development.
Of course, but in your first post you talk about a "sustainable development model" and therefore solutions that can be generalized on a global scale, right?
Switching to a Green Economy leads to huge savings for all oil importing countries: USA, China etc.
On the condition of course of making IMMEDIATELY and SUSTAINABLY to major investments whose spinoffs will not be immediate, far from it. It seems to me that this is precisely the kind of investment that frightens "our rulers", especially since our countries are not necessarily very "at ease" financially speaking.
A coal-fired power station is a boiler, a turbine and an alternator: completely recyclable (copper, etc.).
Yes indeed I do not dispute that. But the operations in question will consume energy, will it be "Green"? Yes ? It will be necessary to produce even more then ....
It is not a question of believing or not believing: it is a question of studying whether the scenario is realistic on the technical and economic level.
There, I do not agree: if if if it is well to believe! Studying, trying to predict the future is a little (a lot) an act of faith. Predicting consumer behavior over 20 years seems very, very ambitious to me! Likewise your judgment is based on studies, these are only studies, necessarily limited in their representation of the reality of the world.
And when I see Chinese energy policy, I laugh softly! (They build coal-fired power plants, well, according to my sources, I haven't been to see!).
Indeed, there is an urgent need to act in an attempt to limit the extent of future warming.
This is even the purpose of these scenarios.
Well always at random (see above how my pifometre works), I think for a few years now that it is simply too late. We would have had to wake up and seriously roll up our sleeves for at least 20 years given the inertia of the system.
We come back to the question of faith!
For a long time optimistic and "techno-confident", I am no longer it at all and I do not believe that more technology (even green) will get us out of the mess in which we have stuck ourselves (and the rest of the world with us, incidentally. !).
Greetings!
"God laughs at those who deplore the effects of which they cherish the causes" BOSSUET
"We see what we believes"Dennis MEADOWS