Cuicui wrote:To believe that cheap energy will be a disaster is, in my opinion, a reaction of the privileged rich who does not suffer from lack of energy.
It is precisely the wealthy privileged who seek at all the energy at low cost to continue their exactions and the maintenance of their dominations.
Historically, thermodynamics has replaced the old slave.
From a purely scientific point of view, it is pseudo-egalitarianism in consumption that is the engine of the destruction of ecosystems and of most modern wars.
No offense to the egalitarian-capitalists, the American way of life transposed to the rest of the world is equal to the death of the biosphere.
I believe that the future lies in the end of misery and ignorance.
No indicators show us the signs of such a future ...
The future may well lie in destruction and death, besides why build new generation nuclear weapons, underground bases, stealth aircraft etc ...?
Conflicts are due to exasperation of shortages and fears. An ideology based on exponential belief reveals a fear of failing.
Conflicts arise from a set of instincts, such as the ritual of territory, the ritual of domination ...
As you mentioned they aim to guarantee survival in order to avoid the lack of supply, the domination by other groups etc ... the human being has hardly evolved from a biological point of view since its appearance 200000 years ago, there is no reason for its instincts to disappear.
The search for exponential growth, on the other hand, is about addiction, unconsciousness in physical limits and from a psychological point of view in the fear of death (but I think that
Ahmed would be more able to answer this question).
We need to be informed, educated, reassured and warned against any form of propaganda. No head of state will be able to wage war or abuse the planet if all citizens oppose it. All forms of energy intelligently used for the well-being of all and not for the benefit of the irresponsible few are, in my opinion, welcome.
I agree with you, but it remains a vision of "care bears": we need a better world, we need equality, we just have to save the planet, we have to stop misery, it is just wish nothing more ....
If we do not quickly find a way to make clean nuclear power, I fear that before renewable energies can sufficiently take over especially for heating in winter or for desalinating seawater in arid countries, we will have for a long time to come from dirty nuclear power, with Chernobyls and Fukushima, as well as the production and storage of ever more plutonium and hazardous waste.
Believing that "clean" nuclear power will save the planet and quench the thirst of little Africans is naïve the strongest, the bosses of Monsanto say the same things to sell their crap!
With what magic wand, will the great leaders transform their appetites for profit into planetary philanthropy?
Technologies change, but people don't!
Technical means, whether renewable or not, are only means and not an end in themselves.
There is no technological Messiah who will come and save us poor consumers.
The solution lies in a complete overhaul of our lifestyles and in the exponential renunciation of consumption.
"Engineering is sometimes about knowing when to stop" Charles De Gaulle.