I agree with you about carbon but nuclear has ended up being one of the most expensive alternatives.
You’re right, it’s yet another stop-gap measure keeping us from making ideal, long-term solutions. If we were an intelligent species, we’d have been hellbent on implementing renewable energy solutions and putting massive, massive amounts of research into fusion. Instead, we’re where we are now. What a time to be alive.
Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.
As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades:
How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:
Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:
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