What chance have I got, when there are clueless, defeatist billionaires 'trying to buy time for the world to wake up' and uttering stuff like:
"... but if we mean to burn all the coal and any appreciable percentage of the tar sands, or even third-derivative, energy-intensive oil and gas, with 'fracking' for shale gas on the boundary, then we're cooked, we're done for"
and: ""the absolute minimum hope of survival is a gracefully declining population""
This is theguardian article Jeremy Grantham, environmental philanthropist: 'We're trying to buy time for the world to wake up'
This is a comment I made which theguardian is unlikely to print:
Talk
about 'can't see the wood for the trees'. What an idiot! All of that personal
wealth and control over £10s of billions and he's pratting about with AGW and
'saving the environment'. Why?
It's
clean, safe and secure energy Mr Grantham. Nothing else will matter to a nation,
when there are 10 billion of us, in just a few decades. The ¾ of the population,
who currently use ¼ of the energy produced, will be fighting tooth and nail to
reach our standard of living. We will be battling to hang on to our way of
life.
I
hope, for his grandchildren’s sake, this is metaphoric fighting talk because by
2050 we will need 3 or 4 times more energy than we use now, in the face of
declining and evermore expensive fossil fuels and other resources.
One
and only one technology has any chance of providing an energy-rich future to
every individual on the planet, for all of time; it is that of the breeder
reactor.
The
UK is uniquely placed at the moment, because we have an imminent decision,
likely to go the way of such a reactor, for burning our plutonium stockpile. We
could lead the world into the inevitable era of the breeder reactor.
Get
thinking clearly, Mr Grantham. Strive for peace and stability in a world where
it is technically feasible for everyone to benefit from an energy source, free
of greenhouse gas emissions and affordable by all.
People
like you can make a difference to the speed of introduction of breeder reactor
technology and it needs to be happening now.
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