iwillspankyou wrote:@martinspjuthdo you have any suggestions of the "way forward" ?martinspjuth wrote:notification
I do believe in the points i made in my first post in this thread. They are very general in shape, but the details needs to be figured out by people who are working with each project/product/issue. Other than that the Thorium reactors you are talking about do seem like something worth testing. For that to be realised, i think you would have to educate a lot of people of why that is better and securer than Uranium reactors. Many people are still against any kind of nuclear reactors. Getting the general population to understand and accept that the government want to try a new sort of nuclear reactor might be hard in some countries, for example Germany who have decided to shut down all their current nuclear reactors.
The need for power is not the only problem when it comes to the enviroment though. We need to find better ways of taking care of waste products, i.e. recyckling (and many/most countries simply need to start using the methods that currently exist for recycling). We also should look into working with other materials. Today alot of stuff contains plastic and plastics are in many cases made out of oil. Finding an alternative to plastics would help lowering our dependency on fossil fuels.
The deforestation also needs to be stoped, so does the the desertification of many land areas (caused by climate change, deforestation and overexploitation of soil etc). More effective food production could help here, more food from a lesser area of land. GMO products could be a solution here.
If we can just get the whole world to work together towards a more enviromental friendly way of life i think we can come long way. As of what the governments can do, they should simply suport development and research on new technology and try to make them economically acceptable. They can also put up laws/rules to regulate the production of greenhouses gases. For example having a CO2 emission tax that depends on how many tons of CO2 a company produce during a year. Would encourage the companies to find other solutions so that they could avoid the taxes. As individual citizens we can just try to stay educated on the subject, try to lower our personal effect on the enviroment (drive less, use bike more, waste less food, recycle etc) and vote for politicians who seem to have the best way forward (not neccecary the one who speak loudest about climate change).
There really isn't much you can do on an online forum, especially one who's main purpose is to suport a game. But it is interesting to read about, i didn't know about Thorium reactors potetial before, niether did i know that the ice actualy was increasing.