The "no tomorrow" in this context generally refers to the future of humanity, not things like planets rotating.ClappedOut wrote: ↑25 May 2021, 10:40amThere will always be tomorrow as continents became as mass extinctions happened etc, previous generations lived with vile smogs, dangerous working conditions and adulterated food.Psamathe wrote: ↑25 May 2021, 10:30amSo answer is to "do nothing"? - keep wasting energy like there is no tomorrow (ensuring there will be"no tomorrow")?ClappedOut wrote: ↑25 May 2021, 12:33am
Admirable, but industry uses energy in vast amounts, people still want package holidays etc.
EV are not environmentally friendly as they use vast resources to make, novelty v old cars or hybrids.
Anyway Full EV a pipedream as grid won't support it in current state on mass
Ian
If the house has solar then quite possibly it will offset the use, if the tariff is renewable then again it is net neutral.
The use by industry and transmission losses are huge, nuclear power stations could provide district heating and industrial heat- it’s wasted.
Nuclear dry storage casks emit 25kw heat similar to domestic heating systems which is wasted to atmosphere.
Living in a cave completely impractical and people like Greta only get air time as funded by an agenda.
Green is the new tax, another 40-50 years I will be gone, like victorians I don’t care unless it’s diesel or milk in a river- environment agency are merely tax collectors
It is not a question of "living in a cave" vs wasting energy without a care. Climate Change presents far far greater challenges that the times of city smogs (which didn't affect most of the world) or dangerous working conditions. And massive worldwide clutural impacts (can you imagine how the UK with its attitudes creating a "hostile environment" to immigrants will cope with mass migrations as parts of the world become uninhabitable (some in effect already are were it not for aircon).
It's strange as I have no kids so when I go that's it so why should I care but I do. But what starts to eat away at that is when other people who should appreciate better what is happening don't care and it really makes me ask myself if the human race deserves to survive or are we just a rather unintelligent species who know what to do, have the technology and resources to do it but selfishness and lack of care means we knowingly destroy the only place we have to live.
Ian