It's too late': David Suzuki says the fight against climate change is lost.

[jimmy the one]

129. Cheers, Envirogal

Thanks for your first eight words. Note that I clearly referred only to nuclear fusion, not fission.
I agree that nuclear fission waste is contributing to the problem, and increasingly so.
But nuclear fusion would contribute relatively not much to the problem, being a relatively clean source of energy which comes from, not the fission splitting of a uranium nucleus into neutrons into a chain reaction, but by the fusing together of hydrogen atoms resulting in relatively vast amounts of energy and helium atoms with far less radioactive decay with much shorter half lives than fission waste.
.. consider in a fusion power plant, one gallon of water would produce the energy equivalent of 300 gallons of gasoline, with little of the resulting carbon monoxide or dioxide exhaust which would ensue from burning the gasoline. Water! Abundant WATER! No need to drill!
I believe that nuclear fusion power plants aka controlled fusion*, would indeed curb global warming if it could be enabled large scale within a few decades, but of course this can not happen in time to offset, will not happen, maybe never happen. That is all I meant in my previous post.
.. if you speak of fission waste and energy expended from needing a fission bomb to 'ignite' a nuclear fusion reactor, that would need be factored into the equation, as well as creating deuterium and tritium.

* uncontrolled fusion is of course a hydrogen bomb. Controlled fusion is from a fusion power plant.
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Envirogal wrote: Human needs and consumption are the true problem.

Concur, more so with North Americans from the USA.

... I am not an ego, jimmy the one is a British naval term, a guy on hms ships of size.