It is hard to see how someone so sure about 'catastrophe', climate change and nuclear war could picture any future at all for our children, let alone our grandchildren and great grandchildren. It's also hard to believe that he thinks that grandparents and great grandparents have any influence; we are just a bloody nuisance. Anyway, his 'famine' will probably knock us off first.

What a misery guts!

Same old tune on 'action' on climate change; same old lie about renewable energy being "cheaper than fossil fuels". It's the loss of cheap energy that could bring about the famine he sees coming if we don't go along with mad Marxism.

"Rid the world of nuclear weapons". Tell North Korea and the CCP, sport. Although, a big bang might be the way out of the misery John Avery threatens us with if we don't go along with his absurd catastropharian mumbo-jumbo.

I couldn't read any further. What a miserable load of claptrap to be greeted with early in the day.

Those advocating a better future for their children should instil the value of birth control in them ! After all, it's the insane number of humans that causes every single problem we face these days.

«We give our children loving care»

Your very first statement is wrong, mister author.
By bringing them to this world at this time, all you give your children, grandchildren and future generations, is misery!

What you owed these poor souls, is to delay their earthly round and not give them a body in times of population-explosion like now. Like in deep sleep, disembodied souls do not feel the passage of time, so why could they not wait some 1,000 or 10,000 years until conditions on earth become better before taking up a new human body?

Stop hiding behind "loving care": now you cry and squirm helplessly with your feeble attempts to avert the inevitable, but the only reason for these "Our children" to be here and subject to the issues you mentioned, is your lack of control over your genitals and sexual passions!

We must stop listening to activists and their ill-informed erroneous advice. Make one want to click heels and give a stiff-arm salute.

We face the possibility of a disastrous nuclear war?

Possible but only if we allow nut jobs to rule, who believe they can get their own insane agendas imposed with ever ramped up threats?

Standing their way are saner generals who would be required to implement any Mutually assured self-destruction.

All the major power have nuclear-powered subs positioned within striking distance of their perceived adversaries, with enough deliverable nuclear weapon on board to reply with enough crippling force to ensure there can be no winner.

So a nuclear war remains hypothetical!

Whereas climate change is real and needs to be addressed ASAP!

Democracies can achieve this at the ballot box and via sanely led industry/business. And increasingly punitive carbon tariffs will oblige the totalitarian states to follow suit!

Clearly, this author is another ignorant anti-nuclear activist?

Claims erroneously that renewables are our cheapest carbon-free option.

They are not! TBC.
Alan B.

Until such time as ALL nations cooperate and implement a plan to reduce and stabilise the out of control world population of Homo Sapiens, the most destructive animal species ever, we are futiley wasting our time.
If we don`t Pachamama will.

Cont. If we would rid the world of nuclear weapons!? The best way to achieve that incredibly remote possibility is via the burning of weapons-grade nuclear fuel in MSR's

And given we did that? May prevent mutually assured self-destruction as well as provide enough ultra cheap power to reverse poverty wherever it exists.

And can not be left to immoral leaders serving the vested mindless interests of multinational corporations but rather via deliberately preferred and prospered cooperative capitalism! The economic enemy of both big business and the union movement alike, given it, sidelines both and rues them out of a vastly more egalitarian and abundant future.

And a future which cannot rule out this or tha carbon-free energy paradigm on spurious political activism grounds/ or personal vested economic interests.

I mean I could if given my druthers, power this nation with thermal coal and while simultaneously eliminating carbon emissions from the mix!

Requires a very different mindset and a cleanout of the conflicted and troglodytes in governments.

Then using a combination of cooperative capitalism and social credit replace aging power station with solar thermal projects that are tasked with cooking washed thermal coal with flameless heat

So, there's no boilers no pressure and no super huge turbines roaring like a dozen 747's taking off!

Just cooked, scrubbed and stored (reductant) methane gas fed into a national gas grid that can utilize existing energy corridors and the metal in the current transmission lines progressively smelted to make the new 24/7 pipeline?

And this free of current transmission and distribution losses, energy delivered to the client's on-site ceramic fuel cell(s) Where the exhaust product would be mostly pristine water vapour!

Graphene cored cables carrying it to our future graphene highway that charge electric vehicles on the go. And monitored for billing requirements via current toll road technology! TBC.
Alan B.

tell lies often enough and people believe its truth. Evolution is probably best example. Its sister man made gw is a close second. One day some of the swamp might become rational and look to their Creator for a few answers. So many lies or half truths in this article one would nt know where to start. Problem is sprouting this nonsense helps you climb the swamp ladder.

Neuroticism V neurosis

Neurosis
Carl Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist who believed that a neurosis was a clash of conscious and unconscious events in the mind.

Yep fits!

neurosis is a disorder involving obsessive thoughts.

Yep, fits!

Neuroticism:

People with neuroticism may see everyday situations as menacing and major!

Yep, jigsaw complete!

Dan

Cont. We have the option here, now of accepting the role of the world's safest repository of mountainous nuclear waste and a paid-for service that earns annual billions!

But, before we bury back into the land where it came from, process it to extract the 98+% of potential energy still locked within!

A conventional 350MW reactor will require during a 30-year operational lifetime some 2551 tons of, as rare as platinum, enriched at further great cost, uranium fuel.

Producing over that period, some 2550 tons of mostly unspent fuel/nuclear waste.

This nuclear waste can be, very safely burned in MSR's where e.g., one ton of this same waste would power a 50 MW MSR for north of 25 years! Or if you will, dozens for multiple centuries for lees PKWH than the price of a cup of coffee1

Remember all the options I've suggested thus far are carbon-free, with MSR technology far and away cheapest of all and nuclear power has a better record for fewer fatalities per Gigawatt of power generated than even renewables. See Alan Goulding Facebook page and a couple of evidential confirming videos replete with comparative graphs.

So given this is so! Exposes the scam that is the science ignorant, anti-nuclear brigade's activism!?
Alan B.

To those imbeciles advocating enforced abstinence as birth control, I can report the only sure and proven method of population reduction control has been solely on the back of improved economies and the inclusion of females in an egalitarian education system!

The how-to, is only available with the distribution of affordable energy and potable water. They like economic miracles o the recent past, often have a trainable workforce and materials?

That then is the starting point and is advanced by the preferred implementation of cooperative capitalism and social credit as the universal funding!.

Therefore enabled to be part of a self help solution, rather than as now, part of the population explosion problem. And consequently, allows the local populace to become integral to the solution.

Which is only ever economic!

With the implementation of Keynesian economics, we went through a post-war period of unprecedented economic prosperity, squandered since by ideologically driven and visionless troglodytes on the far right!

Understand just this much!

Co-ops (cooperative capitalism) were the only private enterprise, free-market business model to survive the great depression largely intact and part of the economic paradigm that allowed us to become the third wealthiest nation on earth and a creditor one at that.

Some folk refuse to ever learn the lessons of history. Keep trying the same fatally flawed solutions while expecting a different result!

And as always, reward themselves first and foremost with much larger slices of a shrinking economic pie!
Alan B.

ttbn,
Seeing solutions does NOT depend on ignorance of the issues.

Renewable energy really is cheaper than fossil fuels for electricity generation. It shouldn't be too hard to comprehend; the latter option has ongoing fuel costs; the former doesn't.

And from what do you infer Marxism? That's not expressed or even implied in the article.
I suggest you read it more carefully.

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Alan B.,
The best way to get rid of nuclear weapons is to get rid of the need for them. Their physical destruction is trivial, and doesn't require MSR; conventional reactors will do.

Burning methane still produces CO2. And converting electricity to chemical energy, pumping it along pipes, and converting it back to electricity near the point of use is far less efficient than keeping it as electricity.

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runner,
No matter how often you tell lies about evolution, nobody's going to believe you. But I'm a bit puzzled as to why you're so seduced by those lies. I get that you treat the Book of Genesis as an eyewitness account, but why do you think God micromanages the climate rather than leaving it to the laws of physics?

Yes Alan B.

As Yabbot once said - a nuclear Suppository might resolve overpopulation

in a FLASH.

Watch this demonstration over over-populated China http://youtu.be/BuX5xug9prk

tell lies often enough and people believe its truth.
runner,

Exactly, religion's been doing it very successfully since day 1.

'Exactly, religion's been doing it very successfully since day 1.'

amazing Individual you now believe their is such things as truth and absolutes. Well aren't you clever. Pity your non religious reviews leads to such self contradiction.

To John Avery.

You've got several items that we need to fix for the sake of the next generation. And while I disagree with some of those items either partially or wholly as a concern for the list, I agree with the underlying thought that we need to do things for the next generation's well being, instead of lack of foresight for the future.

One thing I would add to the list is how debt is placed on economies. And how housing is nearly unaffordable and unattainable for many people because of debt, and both marketing and credit cards encouraging people to spend beyond their means.

I know that isn't as life threatening as nuclear war, but the issue of debt is high on my list of issues for the next generation.

Watch out everyone! Here come the climate witches.

runner,
I'm not writing what you're reading ! It's merely your interpretation of what you want to read.
Hypocrisy will always be hypocrisy, no matter how you want to portray religion !

'Hypocrisy will always be hypocrisy'

are you sure Individual. Only someone who believes in absolutes could possibly come to that conclusion. Your confused godless beliefs don't allow you to believe in absolutes. Unless of course you are a hypocrite.

runner,
Belief in absolutes does not require belief in God.
Recognition o hypocrisy does not require belief in absolutes, nor belief in God.

'runner,
Belief in absolutes does not require belief in God.
Recognition o hypocrisy does not require belief in absolutes, nor belief in God.'

sure Aiden as long as you want to be totally irrational.

runner,
there you go again. Godless ? Am I ? The very moment you can prove that there is one I'll be all for it. I'm just not prepared to blindly take the word of hypocrites & control freaks !
As long as I keep seeing & hearing of so much injustice, corruption & misery I remain sceptical !

''m just not prepared to blindly take the word of hypocrites & control freaks !'

seems to me you already have Individual.

seems to me you already have Individual.
runner,
Please show us where I took your advise ?
How do you expect our young to have a future with the likes of you interfering left, right & centre ?
Instead of forcing unwanted pregnancies to continue, why don't you offer solutions to over-population ? Why don't you offer solutions to poverty, why don't you advocate for more fairness & rid us of injustice, why don't you do as you preach ? You constantly waffle on about discipline so, why not help in the push for a National Service because it is guidance to discipline that's needed, not persecution for mistakes.

Individual

your unhinged rant just confirms my previous comment.

runner,
You're really not worth debating with, you're just wasting good OLO time. over & out !

https://dailyarchives.org/index.php/stories/2857-uk-12-year-old-girl-passed-around-like-a-piece-of-meat-by-middle-eastern-rape-gang

There's a glimpse of their future !