A beautiful example of beating around the bush.
Hollywood "environmentalists" are anti-nuclear zealots first, and less concerned about the planet, it's biology and people. They believe in story telling, and the book has many wonderful essays.
They believe in "virtue signaling" or "earning Karma points". What can you do alone to make yourself feel like you are trying to help?
The profound dishonesty that makes this work far too pessimistic, is the suppression of current information on nuclear power. There is basically nothing there, except the observation that our existing USA plants, designed in the 1960's, are not so competitive with wind and solar designed in 2022, over a half century later. The dishonesty is willful blindness to the fact that we have nuclear tech designed in 2022 and it's very very good. Nuclear generation can be small scale, distributed, and produce far less pollution and habitat destruction than wind and solar. (People who tell you solar doesn't make pollution, are pretending China doesn't exist.)
Fighting climate change isn't that hard. If all the world had done what France did in the 1980's by shifting to 80% nuclear, we would not yet be seeing climate change. 3/4ths of the GHG pollution was emitted after France showed us what to do. Nobody complains about the lifestyle in Paris, and it didn't require a new religion or an end to capitalism.
Wind and Solar energy today are more than half powered by fossil fuels, mostly methane gas, by the time it serves a customer's need. Because gas is typically needed to fill in the intermittency. Someday it is likely batteries or storage could help but we don't have time to wait.
The great news is we can add reliable nuclear to cheap solar and wind, and get the combo we need-- reliable cheap energy!
And to do that we don't need to create a new religion and get everyone to buy in, or go on journeys of personal transformation.
Hawkins has a great team but they don't demonstrate the power of numerical critical thinking. Paul Hawkins is telling the same story decade after decade without noticing that it's 2022.
He is right to highlight solar, wind, and grid improvements.
And the spectacular promise that such tech has "someday" if we built it everywhere at enormous cost and then added costly batteries that will get invented someday.
But that Someday will never come. Climate collapse is already upon us. Today's level of GHG is too high. The weather reports, climate related disasters, and the tragic human toll mount.
The rapid extinction of Earth's biology is already frightening.
And all of the negative changes are on exponential curves.
We are just getting a taste of a coming tsunami of climate chaos.
Nuclear power hasn't been allowed to innovate in any serious way since the 1960's, due to the NRC implementing Congress' bipartisan agreement. The GOP's job is protecting oil, which can never compete against any modern rational redesigned nuclear power. The Dems and the "environmental groups" are still organized to fight the Nuclear Arms Race of the 1980's and try to suppress nuclear anything.
This book is fantastic in what it contains. But a student of Earth needs to look past its anti-nuclear zealotry to get a complete view of how we will combat climate change.
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