What's the downside of going green?

What's the downside of going green?
>Green energy creates more jobs and doesn't pollute the air, water and land anywhere near as much as fossil fuels.
>Hybrid and electric cars are now very sensible choices.
>Eating less meat is good for your body and the planet.
>Nuclear power plants and wind/solar farms look way cooler than smoke-spewing fossil fuel power plants.
>If we no longer needed oil, the mudslimes would have no power over the West.
So what's the problem? Even if you don't believe in climate change you must want a cleaner world, right?

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Chinks couldn't care less and will just continue to grow like a tumor in our absence until the environment is destroyed

We need to keep our numbers up so we can put them down

really gets my solar panels up and out for a jog

Because the only feasible way to do it is nuclear but enviromental fags throw a fit whenever you say that

How green is green energy really?

You hamstring your own industry and increase energy costs to your own people, whilst competing nations, unfettered by PC climate bullshit, provide their industry and people will fewer regulations and cheaper energy.
Their overall standard of living falls.

Idk OP what's the downside to sucking a million cocks it seems only you would know hmm...

Fpbp, bury the chink's inside their mega cities

WRONG

the chinks are already doing much more than you towards going green (govt., not companies)

mostly because the pollution is really bad for their image and history tells being a totalitarian state with a really bad image doesn't work for very long

China has already agreed to cut carbon emissions more than the US, while Trump claims that climate change is just a hoax made up by China.
Sweet not-an-argument, fagnut.
>70% of the planet's rare earth minerals would be needed to create wind turbines
Nigga u dumb

This. Global Warming is a socialist scam.
>Rich nations pay money to poor nations to help them not poison the planet

How is this not extortion?

>more jobs!
Im skeptical
>electric cars are now a very sensible choice
if you dont have to travel very far, maybe.
>Eating less meat is good for your body and the planet.
You dont know my diet
>Nuclear power plants and wind/solar farms look way cooler than smoke-spewing fossil fuel power plants.
Nuclear plants are not green
wind and solar farms are not cost effective
the way it looks is only important when considering real-estate value
>If we no longer needed oil, the mudslimes would have no power over the West.
Doesnt the north produce enough oil to satisfy demand as is?

also Trying to pollute less is fine if its in the interest of your nation or if you are able to afford it. That said, industry and modern life has a price and some areas will become polluted to some degree. this is unavoidable.

There is no downside. Going green will also stop more niggers imigrating since the wont be pushed out of the countries because of climate change.

climate change schmimate mange

that's not exactly what it read. Maybe he meant 70% of the mined minerals. My point was that just because something is labelled as 'green' doesn't autimatically mean it's harmless to the environment. Or even less harmless.

The earth isn't going to last forever, so it's a pointless fight

>>Hybrid and electric cars are now very sensible choices.
Do you know damaging the work making those batteries is?

You still have to mine the lead and ship it across the planet to have it refined. Then it's shipped to be refined again before going to the factory to be put into the car so fruits can have a smug "i'm better than you" attitude. Despite the fact making their electric or hybrid car did more damage to the environment than that guy driving an older car.

If you want a car and help the planet, buy used.

>Im skeptical
It's a fact. Look it up. Coal, oil and natural gas require far fewer employers and those jobs pay less.
>if you dont have to travel very far, maybe.
Way to cherrypick, fuckwit.
>You dont know my diet
I can guess, ya fuckin' lye-eating snowman.
>Nuclear plants are not green
Yes it is. Stop being willfully obtuse. It's only dirty if there's a mishap, which is WAY less common than mishaps with fossil fuel energy production.
>Doesnt the north produce enough oil to satisfy demand as is?
The North of what? And the demand is constantly increasing while the supply of good oil is decreasing. The oil we're rapidly becoming left with is much dirtier and much more dangerous.
>Trying to pollute less is fine if its in the interest of your nation or if you are able to afford it. That said, industry and modern life has a price and some areas will become polluted to some degree. this is unavoidable.
The entire planet is already heavily polluted. Where the fuck have you been?

>Green energy creates more jobs and doesn't pollute the air, water and land anywhere near as much as fossil fuels.
what is "Green energy"? solar and wind? if so you will not be creating any new jobs because wind/solar and other meme technologies are not economical enough and must be subsidized by governments which means taking money from other productive industries.
>Hybrid and electric cars are now very sensible choices.
and how will the electricity for powering these cars be generated?
>Eating less meat is good for your body and the planet.
veganism has be debunked many times. Also depending on the area you are living in meat production is not harmful to the environment and is economical (e.g. lamb meat in the UK and New Zealand)
>Nuclear power plants and wind/solar farms look way cooler than smoke-spewing fossil fuel power plants.
Green retards hate nuclear power with a passion so it does not count as "Green energy" even though it is the best power source for humanity
>If we no longer needed oil, the mudslimes would have no power over the West.
mudsilms dont have power over the west, we all know who controls them and the west.
>So what's the problem?
you are the problem and idiots like you who believe in click bait videos they watch on Facebook about "going green"

>Hydropower
>Building dams that block the migration of fish, thus killing off a key source of protein is "green"

Wew

How about we fight long enough to find means to colonise other planet.

How about some actual data, retard? "Muh feelings" isn't an argument. Those people driving hybrids aren't smug, they're just better than you because they aren't autistic.

It takes less jobs to run a plant and assemble fans then it does to mine coal
Electric cars cause way more environmental damage in their manufacturing and disposal.
Good organic meat provides way more protein and protects the land more from crop over usage.
True about the oil though. We need bigger cities so everyone can walk everywhere and we can leave our natural land alone. Its more responsible to live in a crowded city then to take land you don't need and waste gas driving places too far out...

>being unable to travel city to city in a vast continent like the USA is a nitpick
ok

why are you assuming my race?

Nuclear power plants still produce radioactive waste. most plants are from like the 70s

the northern hemisphere

The planet isnt that heavily polluted though.

>caring about foreign markets
>not adopting autarky

pleb tier economics

>look at how well these government regulations are working! Don't forget your gas mask in Shanghai.
Thanks for the report, CNN. Can you also update us on Obama's latest vacation?

Are renewables just like edibles haha
Dude
Awesome lol

It takes less jobs to run a plant and assemble fans then it does to mine coal

Electric cars cause way more environmental damage in their manufacturing and disposal.

Good organic meat provides way more protein and protects the land more from crop over usage.

True about the oil though. We need bigger cities so everyone can walk everywhere and we can leave our natural land alone.

Its more responsible to live in a crowded city then to take land you don't need and waste gas driving places too far out...

Rushing the transformation of everything to green is extremely expensive and/or unviable as they are not that better than fossils RN.

it does benefit big business OP, duh!

This is bullshit argument. They are not comming here because their fields don´t grow anything they are comming here because they don´t wan´t to work.

He didn't say China has already solved its pollution problem you stupid nigger. But he's not wrong, the Chinese government really is trying to push green energy because ordinary Chinese are now sick of having to wear masks all the time.

Let's fuck your head up with some facts.
>green energy creates more jobs
No. It doesn't. To run a mine you need electricians, mechanics, machinists, miners, geologists, MSHAW, safety officers, administration, logistics, a railroad to move the coal.
To operate a wind farm you need a few technicians.

Cool story kid, but you're obviously full of shit.

Environmentalism is just communism in disguise

>What's the downside of going green?

1. It isn't working
2. Prices going up
3. Left itself killed nuclear research, we could have safe reactors now that use waste from older nuclear reactors...

>So what's the problem? Even if you don't believe in climate change you must want a cleaner world, right?

THEN WHY DID YOU KILL NUCLEAR RESEARCH?

Green energy creates more jobs because it's a much less efficient way of generating power
Hybrid and electric cars are still impractical, and will be for the foreseeable future, and do as much, if not more damage to your precious environment
Eating less meat is not good for your body, but is good for the planet, your call
Nobody cares how their power plants look, but nuclear is the way forward, I'll give you that
We only rely on the middle east because we aren't allowed to drill in the arctic, where there is a stupid amount of oil

Because green politics destroys economy. Even Cuck King Trudeau has abolished it.

I'd be interested in alternative meat sources. Cows are tasty and all but they take awhile to hit market weight. Pork is great and protects us from those who would do us harm.

Full retard.
>what is "Green energy"? solar and wind? if so you will not be creating any new jobs because wind/solar and other meme technologies are not economical enough and must be subsidized by governments which means taking money from other productive industries.
This doesn't even make sense. Wind and solar farms are already producing energy for communities. Not to mention geothermal energy.
>and how will the electricity for powering these cars be generated?
Right at this very moment? Who gives a fuck? I'm talking about the future. And I produce the energy for my electric car with solar panels and a battery system.
>veganism has be debunked many times. Also depending on the area you are living in meat production is not harmful to the environment and is economical (e.g. lamb meat in the UK and New Zealand)
I never said anything about veganism, you illiterate fuck. And Raising cows is never good for the environment. Especially not in South America where they're cutting down rain forests to raise more and more cattle.
>Green retards hate nuclear power with a passion so it does not count as "Green energy"
That's completely retarded. What "green retards" believe doesn't change reality.
>mudsilms dont have power over the west, we all know who controls them and the west.
Hurr. Saudi Arabia has more control of America than Trump.
>you are the problem and idiots like you who believe in click bait videos they watch on Facebook about "going green"
Right. I'm the idiot and you, the person who believes oil industry propaganda, are the genius.
You left off the part about hybrids, you dishonest cunt.
>Nuclear power plants still produce radioactive waste
Radioactive materials already exist in the Earth. The spent materials from nuclear power plants are stored deep underground where they're of no danger.
>The planet isnt that heavily polluted though.
Oh, fuck off, you waste of life.

t. Shapiratards
>(((capitalism)))
>ever
Fuck the free market and fuck democracy
Stay Jew'd. I hope the oil companies are giving you enough shekels.

ideas like the fact that chinese people have feelings and don't like breathing smog will never occur to people this far up their own asshole

The problem is that it should be a private investiment, the state shouldnt invest in things that will only be paid in 30 years, like going green and bailing out banks while most of the western nations have both deficit and debt issues.
Not to mention unemployment, youth unemployment and or low value jobs/increased cost of life.
Specially because this affects energy cost and doesnt create as much jobs.

>China has already agreed to cut carbon emissions more than the US, while Trump claims that climate change is just a hoax made up by China.

??? Last I checked china was still opening 2 coal plants a week ???

>Creates more jobs
About 260000 people are in the solar industry which provides less than 1% of the nation's electrical power. The coal industry has about 75,000 and provides 30% of the nation's energy. At that rate you might as well have 1 person tossing wood into a furnace for thermal energy.

>better world

Well, I like the world as it is. I don't need to support scientists who exaggerate and intentionally misinterpret their results to get more budget for their projects.

>stupid fat old business man talking to a skeptical start woman of colors

>Look it up. Coal, oil and natural gas require far fewer employers and those jobs pay less.
Wait, so now producing the same amount of energy for more cost is somehow a good thing?

>How about some actual data, retard?
>hurr durr strip mining for toxic metals will do no damage
>producing more electricy won't do any either
Seriously nigger?
dels.nas.edu/resources/static-assets/materials-based-on-reports/reports-in-brief/hidden_costs_of_energy_Final.pdf

spectrum.ieee.org/energy/renewables/unclean-at-any-speed/

>Those people driving hybrids aren't smug, they're just better than you
That is exactly what being smug is you stupid ass.

>Energy independence
Except the materials for solar cells are strip-mined in China and I'm sure we'd be importing raw materials and using foreign labor to assemble parts regardless of the energy source.

>preserve rainforests
If rainforests are actually being cut down for oil it'll continue regardless of petroleum use since we have a heavy reliance on plastics. Though I'm not sure I believe oil drilling is the #1 cause of deforestation.

>sustainability
We have shit tons of oil in the world. Sustainability won't be a problem for long enough that we can safely ignore it and let alternate sources develop at a natural pace.

>green jobs
>implying I support more welfare spending when we could just keep existing private market jobs instead

>livable cities
We already have regulations in place keeping our cities from becoming Beijing 2.0. We could probably afford to reduce those regulations and still get by with perfectly livable cities, but it's fairly rare to hear people argue we should put real pollutants (i.e. not greenhouse gases) into the environment.

>renewables
This is just sustainability in different clothes.

>clean water, air
This is essentially livable cities again, but I have a feeling they're bitching about things like fracking which are perfectly safe.

>healthy children
Isn't this livable cities and clean water, air again?

>etc. etc.
I'd love to hear them.

>ITT: retards become environmentalists

anyways it's my opinion that Nuclear Energy is probably the best form of renewable energy and it'd be best to look in that direction for answers (I don't have them cuz I don't pretend to have them.)

certainly better than drooling over yourself trying to prove to dumbasses that climate change is a real thing.

>Full retard.
>illiterate fuck
>hurr
>Saudi Arabia has more control of America than Trump.

You seem triggered friend.

>It takes less jobs to run a plant and assemble fans then it does to mine coal
Wind energy already employs more Americans than the entire coal industry(88,000 vs 76,000).
>Electric cars cause way more environmental damage in their manufacturing and disposal.
That's just BS though. You're buying into propaganda. The environmental impact of a car doesn't end once it leaves the assembly line, dingus.
>Good organic meat provides way more protein and protects the land more from crop over usage.
That's just wrong. Plant-based protein is more calorically and nutritionally efficient while also being more beneficial to your body and easier for your body to digest.
>Let's fuck your head up with some facts.
The fuck would you know about facts? >clean air and water is for commies!
Nice bullshit, bro.

I love this. you, user, are a genius. good joke.

WRONG

climate policy is about reverting the trend, China might be currently infinitely more polluted than the U.S. but that's what it took for them to realize the current model is unsustainable

they have already reached peak madness so they HAVE to craft new solutions necessary to sustain their massive society and in doing so they will surpass the US as a global leader

meanwhile you have an orange puppet on the white house dismantling the EPA and you won't realize you were taking it up the ass from lobbyists all along (america's favorite pastime since 1869) until half of your cities are like flint

the US is a nation of the past, if it weren't for sillicon valley and hollywood you'd already be irrelevant despite all your fancy boats

I just applied to work at a solar site
>dig holes, pour foundations and throw solar panels on racks
>watch solar panels sit for the next 20 years

Solar is heavily subsidized and continues to provide only a small % of overall electricity. It's also hard to handle electrically, meaning advanced transformer tech and possible grid degredation.. it's like the ethanol of electric generation

And yet those 76,000 coal workers provide 7 times as much energy than wind power.

>Nuclear Energy is probably the best form of renewable energy
>Nuclear
>renewable
wat

Actually a well built dam can make a artificial lake and a nice tourism spot, while watering the adjacent farming land.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alqueva_Dam

>I can't argue with any of those points sol I'll call it all bullshit

>Green energy creates more jobs and doesn't pollute the air, water and land anywhere near as much as fossil fuels.

You should look up how well it worked out in Germany

>fag and faggots cars are now very sensible choices

Call me when you have hydrogen cars, or when all the green people stop shitting on nuclear. Until then, eat coal with a side of shit

>Eating less meat is good for your body and the planet.

Fuck the planet

>Nuclear power plants and wind/solar farms look way cooler than smoke-spewing fossil fuel power plants.

Again, shut the fuck up until hippies stop blocking nuclear, or when they stop blocking solar and wind because of some bug or rare bird

>If we no longer needed oil, the mudslimes would have no power over the West.

All mustards would then run away to the west.

>climate change

Ten years back they called it Global warming. Why?

>What's the downside of going green?

None, in the long term. It'd just be popularizing new technology. On the short term, we run the risk of causing substantial infrastructural and logistical issues by relying too heavily on new technology. Like it or not, there are real drawbacks to certain technologies (wind, solar, etc.) and the technology is extremely new. The real best option would be going heavy into nuclear tech, but politicians don't have the guts to support it.

>Green energy creates more jobs and doesn't pollute the air, water and land anywhere near as much as fossil fuels.

Keep in mind that this comes from the fact that it's a new industry. Also, keep in mind that investment in one form of power comes at the detriment of others - it's why, for example, coal miners tend to hate the idea of "green" energy. But yes, you're right. And such jobs are safer, too - the nuclear industry is much safer than most believe.

Also, pollution is still a real issue. The component parts of, for example, solar panels aren't exactly eco friendly. There are issues with nuclear waste storage which could be partially alleviated if we didn't have a retarded fucking ban on reprocessing.

>Hybrid and electric cars are now very sensible choices.

Sure, if you only live in a city or something. You still can't easily do cross-state treks in a Tesla. They are also, in my opinion, terribly designed. Priuses are manufactured overseas and thereby rely on global shipping, which cause environmental harm as well. I like my loud ass engines dammit.

>Eating less meat is good for your body and the planet.

As compared to a hypothetical average gluttonous American, true.

>Nuclear power plants and wind/solar farms look way cooler than smoke-spewing fossil fuel power plants.

Agreed as to the former, at least. Nuclear power is amazing.

>If we no longer needed oil, the mudslimes would have no power over the West.

Entirely agreed, and it'd be hilarious.

How are you so convinced climate change isnt real?

It's a reusable source of energy to which the only problems that exist are waste management and political implications. You haven't played Fallout?

the main problem with hydropower via the creation of dams is the production of methane caused by the biomatter slowly rotting beneath the reservoir

we have a couple dams up in the amazon that produce more greenhouse gas / MW generated than pure coal facilities

Apologies, that was worded weirdly I'll admit. I do think it's a real thing but there's dipshits in here dismissing it.

>If we no longer needed oil, the mudslimes would have no power over the West.
The mudslimes give power to the West. I'm sure you've heard the term "petrodollar" before.

>nuclear
>renewable
>wat

Not exactly but nuclear fuel can be used twice if you have the right type of reactors

>Nuclear waste is recyclable. Once reactor fuel (uranium or thorium) is used in a reactor, it can be treated and put into another reactor as fuel. In fact, typical reactors only extract a few percent of the energy in their fuel. You could power the entire US electricity grid off of the energy in nuclear waste for almost 100 years (details). If you recycle the waste, the final waste that is left over decays to harmlessness within a few hundred years, rather than a million years as with standard (unrecycled) nuclear waste.

That too, and yet retards continue to say that hydropower reduces carbon emissions.

massive cost that if it pays off will take decades to match initial investment

nuclear reactor could turn my town into the next chernobyl

Our ancestors going back tens of thousands of years have eaten meat and survived to reproduce, meaning it has been a part of if not essential to the human diet for that long and the notion you can change that within a few generations is absurd

we have plenty of oil reserves in the west as is, leftists just don't want to tap into them because they create jobs which takes away potential welfare cows

>look cool

not an argument

Should start building thorium reactors.

That's great, but how can we eat fish if they're all dead?

Going green isn't the issue.

this is the issue

And you Canadians have CANDU reactors, which are pretty fuckin' clever

To support your points:
>Waste management

If the West adopted a strong policy of reprocessing waste, this issue would be minimized greatly. Moreover, the issues with Yucca Mountain and similar disposal sites are exaggerated to say the least. It's NIMBY shit at its most ridiculous.

>Political implications
Unfortunately probably the biggest issue

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giant concrete pads, dead birds and strip mines
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need coal and nukes to charge them cause solar and wind are highly inefficient
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low iq diet
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Simpsons style cooling towers aren't even built anymore. Living near wind farms is shit. "smoke" is just water vapor from combustion
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Hydrocarbons will never not be needed
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the climate changes and the sun drives that change
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Carbon dioxide is plant food

>The problem is that it should be a private investiment, the state shouldnt invest in things that will only be paid in 30 years
But that's fucking moronic. The private sector is only interested in short term gains while the government HAS to invest in the future. What the fuck do you think Social Security and such are? They're fucking long term investments.
Check again.
>more jobs is a bad thing
>if something isnt great right this very instant it never will be
>scientists?
>the fuck do they know!
If the argument is about jobs, then how is fewer jobs that pay less a good thing to be arguing for? If you want to shift the argument to the profitability of the corporations then you should have a word with President Trump.
The coal industry is already strip mining the fuck out of America, you fucking dipshit. We have fewer mountains now because of coal.
And it's not smugness if they really are better than you.
Why are you making up things to argue against?
>triggered lol
>posts the whiniest, most easily triggered white man to have ever lived
Because the infrastructure for coal has been in place about 1000 times longer. Stop being willfully retarded.
You just pulled bullshit out of your ass, fucker.
>hurr look how retarded i am!
>I like my loud ass engines dammit.
Could you fuck off though? Being otherwise reasonable and then reverting to
>but ah need muh vroom vroom
just makes you an insta-tard.

Lol OP BTFO.
JUST MEANS HE WILL IGNORE YOU. How dare you use facts against his witchcraft?

>chernobyl
you dont know anything about nuclear power if you think it claims and disrupts more lives than coal.

lol they eat plastic food and their smog cloud is so large it crosses the pacific

I think the level of irony is too strong for me, as I don't see how something that works by digging stuff from underground, doing irreversible things to it, and burying what's left, can be considered "reusable". I'm pro nuclear though, I just mean the wording.

>What the fuck do you think Social Security and such are? They're fucking long term investments.

Now we know you are a moron

Don't invest in some green bubble that "might" help Earth but invest in NASA and alike to take us out of here if the shit goes down, climate change is one thing that might kill us in future but asteroids, solar winds and much much more need space travel to mitigate the danger.

If thorium reactors ever have military application, they'll be built within half a decade.

>china signs a deal that only stupid round eyes will abide, further lowering their manufacturing output

you're a cuck bitch and someone should take your money

The Middle East holds all the power in the relationship. Why do you think US presidents suck the cocks of the Saudis? Why do you think the US government covered up Saudi government involvement in 9/11?
>mfw

Rare earth element are needed and, as the name suggests, those are rare.

Nothing wrong with it, but it has to be intuitive and be driven by a grassroots initiative. Keep the feds out, basically.

eating less meat directly correlates to being a huge pussy, enjoy adding 1 year to your life in exchange for being a effeminate faggot for all of it

Downsides to going green? You get angry alt-rights calling you a faggot. That's literally it. We could easily have solved our energy problems by now if we put effort into having sustainable energy sources in the UK. i.e. wind and solar.

Muh solar panels and driving muh electric cars are pretty bad for the environment, the materials to make solar panels are kinda scarce and for the cars how are we ganna dispose of all those batteries
IMO we need to go nuclear geothermal and wind power, and for cars we need to find a way to produce ethanol on a massive scale and get fucking big oil to let go of those 1000mpg fuel injection designs
Fpbp

>chinese people have feelings

They really don't. Unless you count avarice and pride as emotions.

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As long as it makes the region self reliant on energy im OK with it. Such a investement should be rare for me because it would have to guarante proffit and would have great planiffication to think of all that could go wrong.
A alternative way os to open canals and connecting rivers like the english did in the xviii century. I belive with rivers suck as Amazônia and Mississippi it would open many routes.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_pond

Are you insane? Nuclear is no where near sustainable. What happens when the uranium runs out in 100 hundred years huh? Oh right, you have no idea because you are an uneducated peasant. Don't even get me started on the nuclear waste and clear CAUSATION between increasing nuclear waste and cancer diagnosis's.

Are you retarded or just autistic?
>lol investments earn more than social security
Social Security has no inherent risk, can't be raided by Wall St kikes, and is meant to subsidize your retirement savings, not BE your retirement savings.
And how the hell do I invest in NASA exactly? I can't just send extra taxes specifically to NASA, dingus.
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How the fuck is a grassroots initiative going to change the entire infrastructure of the country while leaving the government out? Sneak around with solar panels and power tools at night? You libertarians are children.
Why dont you say that to my face, fucker and not on the internet?
AGAIN, the environmental impact of a car doesn't end when the car leaves the assembly line. Stop being intentionally retarded. Over the coarse of my electric car's life it will have had a MUCH smaller environmental footprint than your ICE car.

>Green energy creates more jobs and doesn't pollute the air, water and land anywhere near as much as fossil fuels.
It also does not produce the energy amount we need at the time we need it. We currently lack the technology to store electrical energy in the dimensions we need it.
>Hybrid and electric cars are now very sensible choices.
Same problem. Battery technology is the bottleneck that prevents the switch.
>Eating less meat is good for your body and the planet.
Eating meat has no negative effect on your health, you have been lied to by special interest groups in the food industry. Reducing meat consumption for first world countries is unnecessary, they produce vastly more than they need. The damaging parts of the food industry are there to feed the vast majority of people living in 2nd and 3rd world shitholes that consume more than they produce.
>Nuclear power plants and wind/solar farms look way cooler than smoke-spewing fossil fuel power plants.
Nuclear power is not considered green, the resources needed to fuel it are not universally available and it produces radioactive waste and contaminates the water and atmosphere. Solar farms require large amounts of open space, maintenance, resources (plastics), are only efficient in certain climate zones and are expensive to build.
>If we no longer needed oil, the mudslimes would have no power over the West.
We also need oil to produce plastics. The US also needs oil to dominate international finance. Some rather large and potentially dangerous countries like the USA or russia make a hefty penny with oil.

>just makes you an insta-tard.
Calm down, a little bit of levity isn't going to destroy Sup Forums

>I don't see how something that works by digging stuff from underground, doing irreversible things to it, and burying what's left can be considered "reusable".

Careful, don't characterize the science incorrectly. Regardless of reactor type, we're simply allowing reactions to occur in material and extracting energy from the reactions. This can and has occurred in nature before:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_nuclear_fission_reactor

Needless to say, no real energy-generating process is "reusable" by virtue of fundamental laws of physics. Solar power, for example, simply benefits from the fact that the sun isn't going to burn up any time soon. Wind actually operates on similar principles, albeit a few steps removed.

Even if we assume your characterization to be true, the same fundamental principle applies to, for example, oil. We dig it out of the ground, process it, burn it, and then effectively discharge the byproducts into the atmosphere (or bury it, or whatever, depends on the part of the process). Ditto for coal, which is even dirtier.

You shills are the most obvious motherfuckers, you stick out like sore thumbs

>Cambodia criticizing Chinese

Literally no other country in SEA sucks Chinese dick more than you

Fish ponds don't solve the problem since there are a lot of fish that need to migrate in order to spawn. Thus, they can't spawn if a big dam is in the way.

The downside is that it's being exploited with shit like environment taxes that only truly apply to people who buy, not to people who produce, and making superior technologies like incandescent lightbulbs downright illegal in many places.