permaculture

[Glenn Gall <glenngall@gmail.com>]

"Makes one wonder why everyone on earth is worrying about global
warming, and thinking we're running out of energy, when we have a
technology requiring relatively common fuels (enough so that we can say
there's an infinite supply for the next few centuries), ….”

Thorium won't stop global warming  Or flooding, drought, extinction,
desertification, deforestation, hunger, acidified oceans etc., for that
matter.   The globe is already warm, and will warm another degree F, no
matter the energy source, unless there is a lot more life in the biosphere
and soil, and in a hurry.  The other effects are already present, and will
also worsen without more life to stabilize our earth.

Thorium may or may not satisfy many of our energy needs, but it won't bring
a planet back to life. I'm willing to discuss the possibility of thorium
energy, but but as an energy fix.  Don't hype it as an earth-system fix.

More life, a massive amount, is critical, no matter all the other good and
necessary things we do.  How much more is anybody's guess.  And how we do
it ...?   It will need to be much more than reducing our carbon footprints,
much more than personal responsibility.

And much more than thorium.

Glenn