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Ugo Bardi on “Plundering the Planet” (Part II)
Ugo Bardi, professor for physical chemistry at the University of Florence, author of the Report to the Club of Rome “Plundering the Planet”
As oil production stagnates and is likely to fall in the future, „king coal“ enjoys a renaissance – with disastrous consequences for the climate. If we continue to build coal-fired power plants, we risk the future of humanity, we risk extinction, says Bardi. Coal is only profitable because social and ecological costs are not taken into account. Future generations will have to pay the bill and clean up the mess. In spite of misinformation and the enormous power of fossil fuel corporations, resistsance is fertile, Bardi says.
5 Comments on "Ugo Bardi on “Plundering the Planet” (Part II)"
rollin on Sun, 30th Jun 2013 7:01 pm
Unless we keep a highly technical energetic society, we will not clean up the pollution, ever. Nature will have to clean it up and that could take a very long time.
CO2 we produce today will have effects out for thousands of years, possibly as long as one half million.
GregT on Sun, 30th Jun 2013 7:50 pm
It is our highly technical energetic society that Is creating the pollution to begin with.
We are already too late to clean up the mess that our ‘technologies’ have created, and yes, it will take nature many thousands of years to restore some kind of balance. That new balance does not necessarily need to include human beings.
If we don’t take care of the Earth, the Earth will take care of us, and not in a pleasant way.
cephalotus on Sun, 30th Jun 2013 10:00 pm
I bought and read the (e)book. It’s quite good and offered more interesting information than I expected, especially some examples from history.
BillT on Mon, 1st Jul 2013 4:35 am
We do not have the means or the technology to clean up what we have already made. All we can do is cover it up and pretend it is not here.
Fukushima is still releasing radioactive water into the oceans. How do we ‘reclaim’ that?
400ppm of CO2 in the air. How do we ‘reclaim’ that?
Answer: We cannot. Mother Nature can and will but we will not be here to see it. Eventually the sea radioactivity will die away and those living things that have consumed it will also die away. The planet will cycle through another extinction event and come out the other side with the start of a new ecosystem.
If you want to see how this can happen I suggest you watch this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQm6N60bneo
‘The History of Earth”
I found that it is the most logical and likely series of events put together from the technological advances we have made recently. Man knows how things work, but refuse to see his place in it all. Some book says to ‘go forth and multiply’ and ‘use the earth’.
Arthur on Mon, 1st Jul 2013 5:38 am
Yes, that is what the Bible says:”though shalt inherit the earth”.
All six foot of it.