C8 wrote:I just read a book called Bright Green Lies. It is written by a deep green environmentalist who repeatedly emphasizes that there is no industrial level of green tech that will save the Earth b/c it is the industrial level of production that is the key problem (Bright Green is a term used to refer to environmentalists who back industrial level solutions such as EV's, mass solar, etc. to give the world a bright, but green future)
Thanks for the information. This is exactly the kind of thing that I've been thinking about for years. I'm not quite as pessimistic as the book's author because I think there is tech and other things that could help...like using nukes to generate carbon-free electric power and enacting a carbon tax to reduce carbon emissions......but I still think we're on our way to climate doom because I don't see the TPTB doing any of the things that would actually solve the problem.
I just checked and there is a movie on YOUTUBE called "Bright Green Lies"
movie on YOUTUBE called "Bright Green Lies"I haven't watched it yet but it looks like it has interviews with the book's author and others discussing problems with the "bright green" movement.
Much of the bright green movement talk we hear is just "Greenwashing." For instance, the enthusiasm over EVs is mostly wasted energy, because building EVs releases much MORE CO2 then building ICE cars and running EVs on coal-fired electrical plants is also a climate disaster. On the political side the Paris Climate Accords just sounds like nonsense to me, because nowhere in the Paris accords is there any binding language that would actually mandate reductions in CO2 emissions......and sure enough, just as I've been predicting since the Paris Accords were ratified in 2015, CO2 emissions just keep rising and Greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere have gone up, up and UP since the Paris Accords were ratified and climate change is getting worse and worse.
IMHO the "bright green" movement is mostly just greenwashing......Cheers!