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11. We always have people who want to carry on about their bourgeois toys.

It's the end of 2023.

I've been at DU for 21 years, and I've lost count of how many people carried on about their swell bourgeois solar junk, which I see as future electronic waste.

In that time, the time of my tenure at DU, the concentration of the dangerous fossil fuel waste carbon dioxide has risen by 48.02 ppm (exactly) as of this writing, with this week's numbers here:

Week beginning on November 26, 2023: 420.59 ppm
Weekly value from 1 year ago: 417.81 ppm
Weekly value from 10 years ago: 396.21 ppm
Last updated: December 02, 2023

Weekly average CO2 at Mauna Loa

In this century the rise has been 51.35 ppm.

As for the world at large, despite half a century of carrying on about how so called "renewable energy" will save us, the following from the International Energy Agency, in SI units, Exajoules, not misleading drivel about watts, stating the peak power that solar junk never reaches:

The numbers are here: 2023 World Energy Outlook published by the International Energy Agency (IEA), Table A.1a on Page 264.



We are using more fossil fuels than ever, and combined, the solar and wind crap can't even keep up with the annual increases in the use of dangerous fossil fuels.

In the 21 years I've been here, about 150 million people have died for air pollution, which is never described as what it is, dangerous fossil fuel waste.

Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 (Lancet Volume 396, Issue 10258, 17–23 October 2020, Pages 1223-1249)

Numbers don't lie. People lie, to themselves and to each other, but numbers don't lie.

The 21 years of this tiresome bullshit "look at my swell solar cells" and "let me tell you about the nickels I save when the sun is shining" has meant nothing, zero, nada, zilch to the world at large.

The best time to have put nuclear plants all over the world, provincials carrying on about their nobility notwithstanding, would have been 30 years ago. The second best time is now.

If he we don't build nuclear plants all over the world, we will have no chance to save what's left to save, nor to restore what can be restored.

All over the world, it's sinking in, and the indifferences and intellectual insufficiency of provincials is being swept aside.

Nuclear energy no longer a taboo, WNE hears

We are, of course, building nuclear plants as fast as we need to - Grossi's point is well taken - but as long as we are not doing so we are plundering all future generations of human beings, and, in fact, given climate change, all living things.

Here are the consequences graphically of the extreme and deadly ignorance that drives anti-nukism, in units of CO₂/kwh, in that German antinuke coal dependent hellhole:



Electricity Map, 30 days, Germany

It's tiresome to hear how provincials pretend to care about the world at large, when clearly they don't.