FreeWits
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What Science do you think I do not believe in, be specific?
As to India, I would rather they find an alternative path, I think nuclear and solar are viable direction,
with nuclear filling the short term and solar and storage building a sustainable future.
I know I do not have all the answers, but I am trying to address the actual problem, which is energy.
We simply do not have enough fossil energy to allow every human alive to attain a first world lifestyle.
From a long term perspective that must be our goal, if we are to have any hope for everyone getting along.
When you say we don't have enough fossil energy to allow every human to attain a first world lifestyle, are you talking about actual energy we have right now or potential energy we could have? I'm not sure if you are using peak oil as your basis here or not, so that's partly why I'm asking, and partly to understand the claim you are actually making. There is certainly enough energy on the planet to lift everybody into a first world lifestyle. The main thing is we need third world countries to build economies so that they have the money to buy energy. Usually, poor countries lack peace and stability, and when there isn't peace and stability then there is difficulty in building infrastructure that will last. Just look at the issues the USA has had in Iraq and Afghanistan where we build infrastructure and then it gets blown up, we rebuild it, and it gets blown up again. That's also why we can't put nuclear in a lot of these third world countries, because with great nuclear energy power comes great responsibility, responsibility that third world countries can't handle. The possibility is certainly there to lift everybody into a first world lifestyle, though. Eventually, new types of energy will likely solve the problem anyways. I think it's best if we use a diversity of energy, too, and not just focus all on one energy type. For instance, one great thing about solar energy is that it produces peak energy when there is peak need (when the temperature is hot).