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Environment & Energy

truebrit71

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16. Yeah, not so much....I started his book Gaia and stopped reading right after the pro-nuke stance...

Reply to GliderGuider (Original post)

Mon Mar 31, 2014, 02:22 PM

Mar 2014

...and anti-solar/wind stance became too much to stomach...What the hell is the point of trying to save the planet from catastrophic heat increases if we do it using the most dangerous and toxic method of power generation known to man?

Glad I bought it as an e-book on Amazon and didn't waste a couple of trees in the process..

Oh, and that whole 'we don't have enough sun' line....*ahem* what about Germany?

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James Lovelock: environmentalism has become a religion [View all] GliderGuider Mar 2014 OP

We don't have enough sun? Erich Bloodaxe BSN Mar 2014 #1

For Lovelock, "we" in the article's context means the UK caraher Mar 2014 #3

They can still get more solar power, just indirectly. Erich Bloodaxe BSN Mar 2014 #5

Sure (except for tides, which have nothing to do with sunlight) caraher Mar 2014 #8

That only works when the wind is blowing or the waves are coming. OnlinePoker Mar 2014 #20

Well, gloomy fog and rain for now . . . hatrack Mar 2014 #9

That's not the Environmental Defense Fund, it's Electricite de France, a fossil and nuclear company bananas Mar 2014 #13

How embarrassing - sorry! caraher Mar 2014 #14

What an ass. gtar100 Mar 2014 #2

You have to understand he's talking about the UK caraher Mar 2014 #4

Lovelock is wrong, he says "renewables won�t work �because we don�t have enough sun" bananas Mar 2014 #15

I can think of worse religions to have. bloom Mar 2014 #6

I'm here with my 94 yr old dad, roody Mar 2014 #7

The Gaia hypothesis is pseudoscience nonsense. ForgoTheConsequence Mar 2014 #10

That religion called survival KT2000 Mar 2014 #11

Science and analysis is difficult, religion is easy. hunter Mar 2014 #12

Yeah, not so much....I started his book Gaia and stopped reading right after the pro-nuke stance... truebrit71 Mar 2014 #16

Coal is "the most dangerous and toxic method of power generation known to man" by far. hunter Mar 2014 #17

Whilst I can't argue that you could be right looking at things by scale... truebrit71 Mar 2014 #18

Nukes are an inherently risky proposition in a collapse-prone world. GliderGuider Mar 2014 #19