@Li789 thankyou for your considerate post. I too, worry about new technologies bringing about yet more waste, more landfill, but applaud the general trend. If Australia with its abundant sunshine, and empty land mass does not utilise this asset, it's plain neglectful. Whether we will eventually develop solar panels which last longer, or can be recycled, is in the stars, or possibly already on the drawing board of a clever scientist, but to me, it is a step in using an abundant resource; i.e. sunlight. I have read some time ago, that we can actually 'clad' the outside of homes with a particular paint, or similar, which can produce energy - the technology exists. There is heaps more innovative technology being developed the general public does not know about.
Nuclear energy has its own problems, but, I too, look forward to the day, when we have safe nuclear reactors silently chugging away in the background of every city, producing all our energy needs; but that model of a 'safe' nuclear reactor is still in some genius's head, or possibly on the drawing board - most likely in China. It will happen, I am sure of it! At the moment they are still not 100% safe and there is the waste product with an afterlife of hundreds of years.
I did check out the origin of some of the scientific facts you post, and they definitely stem from American sources and 'universities' which are dedicated to debunking the climate 'scam' as some call it.
I am too naive, or rather not devious enough, to even guess, why so much money is being put into these research institutions, but remember how the tobacco industry fought back tooth and nail against the sudden public realisation how bad smoking was for people. I am now 'accompanying' a friend on his last lap of life - mostly be telephone - who smoked all his life, is only 67 years old and now has limited life expectancy, because he is now totally reliant on oxygen bottles - he spends most of his time asleep. To me this is a bit of a morality tale about our wasteful Western life styles, enjoyable while it lasts, but exacting a deadly price in the end. For this man, I feel great pity and try and console him daily.
Please check your resources and find out who funds them. To me, this is not about LWNJs or RWNJs, it is about future generations and whether this clever outpost of life, i.e. humanity, on a planet hitherto mostly heaving with brute and dumb life, does deserve the name 'Pinnacle of Life'.
When I have the time, I will go back over all the papers and posts I have collected over the years, to prove on here, that humanity has had a huge impact on the weather, particularly since the Industrial Revolution went into full swing.
Also our populations have increased from about the time of Jesus Christ at around 200 million to 8.2 billion - - over the last 10 years or so - percentage-wise: there is a slight decrease in the growth-rate to less than 0.8 %. Fact is that all these people need to be fed, watered (water is as important as energy) - as well as needing space, though we are crowding together by a factor of 1 human to a square mile at the time Christ, to 55 per square mile now. Seems we don't mind being close . . .
Have fun with this: and don't get too worried, I believe in human ingenuity!
