Nuclear energy is probably the most unnecessarily complicated way that humans have ever devised of doing the simplest of of all human actions, heat water.
Fundamentally it's a ridiculous folly.
In my mind, what was amazing is that humans discovered a way to utilize the sun's energy to directly generate electricity, no moving parts, no water, no continual consumption or combustion of external fuel.
I'm going to have to disagree about nuclear. It feels like the current situation is very precarious with the current global estate of nuclear power.
Regarding the waste, there is no known safe way of disposing the spent fuel so we have it surrounded by concrete casks or perpetually cooled. This requires constant management, which is going to be a challenge to steward in the case of collapse or conflict. The safety regulations around managing the waste is another area that has been captured by the industry, particularly in the U.S. You've got to take into account that this stuff is toxic for maybe a thousand years. How certain are we that someone will be around to manage it?
Try taking a look at the position of nuclear plants in the U.S. and the U.K, then overlay the expected areas of flooding due to sea level rise by 2050. I wonder how this is will be mitigated.
Max Wilbert himself doesn't seem so keen on nuclear power. "Proponents of nuclear power argue that it is a safe, low-carbon energy source. There are nearly 500 nuclear power reactors in the world today, with more under construction. But beyond the risks of nuclear accidents and the nightmare that is nuclear waste (who thinks it is a good idea to intentionally unearth and enrich materials that will be highly toxic for billions of years?), each of these reactors is a potential vector for dangerous weapons-grade nuclear materials to be lost, stolen, or knowingly redirected into weapons programs. "
Right away I will inform you that there is plenty of land to feed 8 billion people if only we got rid of this so called green revolution, that was a design implemented to feed the human machine that built out this fascist techno-system. These fascists forced the people from the land and a culture which was already naturally maintaining the population based on available sustainable resources. Now that the fascist no longer 'believe' they need the people they desire to kill them off. What do you want?
Technology is the fascist's tool to maintain hierarchy as it is. Everything flows to and through those at the top. In a sense you have that part right.
I read this somewhere within the Biodynamics Association's work, I was first alerted to the potential when I participated in a Permaculture Design Course taught by Geoff Lawton.
If you were to watch my videos about the food I am growing on a 20' garden bed, I am doing this at a community garden for demonstration for this video series linked, you can begin to accept this idea that a lot of food, biologically grown on a small space, can grow a lot more nutrition, more surplus calories, with a diverse amount of food having differing nutritional elements, than the green revolution could ever do.
The problem with most people is, they are now so far away from the experiences of their ancestors, at least those who could take care of themselves way back then, they simply don't know how.
Of course, tending a garden is a dynamic process unless you use chemicals to force it, but then the chemicals degrade soil fertility and that is the problem. The most important problem facing humanity. A burgeoning human population based on a degradation of soil fertility. And then it goes pop! Even with the fascists wanting to kill most of us off.
It's not that I don't accept this—I've come across the statistic that 80% of the world's population are still fed by small farmers. The problem is the transition, and transporting food to parts of the world where we have dense, urban populations, or populations living in arid conditions.
Thanks for the youtube link, have put it on my watch list.
Humans are adapting to the injection needle, not being saved by the practice, instead of the natural environment that has a long history. The injection needle is a 'dead' end.
"Nuclear energy is amazing."
Sorry Rachel, but no.
Nuclear energy is probably the most unnecessarily complicated way that humans have ever devised of doing the simplest of of all human actions, heat water.
Fundamentally it's a ridiculous folly.
In my mind, what was amazing is that humans discovered a way to utilize the sun's energy to directly generate electricity, no moving parts, no water, no continual consumption or combustion of external fuel.
To me, that's truly clever.
I'm going to have to disagree about nuclear. It feels like the current situation is very precarious with the current global estate of nuclear power.
Regarding the waste, there is no known safe way of disposing the spent fuel so we have it surrounded by concrete casks or perpetually cooled. This requires constant management, which is going to be a challenge to steward in the case of collapse or conflict. The safety regulations around managing the waste is another area that has been captured by the industry, particularly in the U.S. You've got to take into account that this stuff is toxic for maybe a thousand years. How certain are we that someone will be around to manage it?
Try taking a look at the position of nuclear plants in the U.S. and the U.K, then overlay the expected areas of flooding due to sea level rise by 2050. I wonder how this is will be mitigated.
Max Wilbert himself doesn't seem so keen on nuclear power. "Proponents of nuclear power argue that it is a safe, low-carbon energy source. There are nearly 500 nuclear power reactors in the world today, with more under construction. But beyond the risks of nuclear accidents and the nightmare that is nuclear waste (who thinks it is a good idea to intentionally unearth and enrich materials that will be highly toxic for billions of years?), each of these reactors is a potential vector for dangerous weapons-grade nuclear materials to be lost, stolen, or knowingly redirected into weapons programs. "
https://sierranevadaally.org/2022/01/08/the-thacker-pass-lithium-mine-would-supply-nuclear-weapons-and-reactors/
Right away I will inform you that there is plenty of land to feed 8 billion people if only we got rid of this so called green revolution, that was a design implemented to feed the human machine that built out this fascist techno-system. These fascists forced the people from the land and a culture which was already naturally maintaining the population based on available sustainable resources. Now that the fascist no longer 'believe' they need the people they desire to kill them off. What do you want?
Technology is the fascist's tool to maintain hierarchy as it is. Everything flows to and through those at the top. In a sense you have that part right.
Hey Rick, thanks for your thoughts. What I'm trying to distinguish is technology as a thing-in-itself and technology as a tool, as you describe.
Do you have any links to studies about land use and farming for 8 billion? Thanks!
I read this somewhere within the Biodynamics Association's work, I was first alerted to the potential when I participated in a Permaculture Design Course taught by Geoff Lawton.
If you were to watch my videos about the food I am growing on a 20' garden bed, I am doing this at a community garden for demonstration for this video series linked, you can begin to accept this idea that a lot of food, biologically grown on a small space, can grow a lot more nutrition, more surplus calories, with a diverse amount of food having differing nutritional elements, than the green revolution could ever do.
The problem with most people is, they are now so far away from the experiences of their ancestors, at least those who could take care of themselves way back then, they simply don't know how.
Of course, tending a garden is a dynamic process unless you use chemicals to force it, but then the chemicals degrade soil fertility and that is the problem. The most important problem facing humanity. A burgeoning human population based on a degradation of soil fertility. And then it goes pop! Even with the fascists wanting to kill most of us off.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDCRYtmkDsX9XHCD-higvYUoYRhc3-WhZ
It's not that I don't accept this—I've come across the statistic that 80% of the world's population are still fed by small farmers. The problem is the transition, and transporting food to parts of the world where we have dense, urban populations, or populations living in arid conditions.
Thanks for the youtube link, have put it on my watch list.
I don't think the transition is possible. Prepare for maximum carnage!
Humans are adapting to the injection needle, not being saved by the practice, instead of the natural environment that has a long history. The injection needle is a 'dead' end.