I'm a Luddite without an answering machine and I hang up on machine calls, but persistent real people do eventually get through.
Let's see...
People I've known or met... Garett Hardin, Amory and Hunter Lovins, Helen Caldicott , slept on the floor of various prominent California anti-nuclear activists, hell, even slept with some in not-quite sexual ways, escaped with my virginity intact! I've worn a radiation badges as a temp worker, on my belt next to my gonads because as a young man I figured those were my most important parts. (My kids are healthy and awesome so I was probably right about this.)
I have funny stories about San Onofre, Humboldt, Diablo Canyon, Rancho Seco, UCLA research reactor (nice gemstones!), and dumpster diving General Dynamics and General Atomics.
The only way we're going to get rid of fossil fuels is to ban them. If you believe otherwise then you are just a shill for the fossil fuel industry, an industry which will be happy to "back up" the pathetically intermittent output of solar and wind energy.
Lovins is wrong. Efficiency doesn't matter at all, "smart networks" don't matter at all... Jevons paradox.
There are ways that alternative, non fossil fuel, non nuclear energy could work, especially in places like California or Hawaii that are very favorable for pumped water, off-natural-basin energy storage schemes, Salton Sea, anyone??? But these would be disruptive technologies so greenwash is currently the "most profitable" business. I won't do greenwash.
I don't "believe in" money or profits either, not within our current economic system, and I may die a homeless guy living on the streets in a cardboard box, but I'll always be myself. Not for sale, a very dangerous fellow when I don't know what I'm doing.
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