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"The paradigm of continually increasing growth driven by increasing population and an expectation of improving standards of living -- ".
That paradigm must be changed by addressing the demand side of the equation as well as supply.A good place to start is to have a zero immigration policy and a program to reduce the birth rate.
Population levels are fundamental to resource limits as well as environmental degradation,which includes climate change.
As Kiashu states,there is no mention of geothermal as an energy source neither is nuclear.
The dreaded N word will no doubt raise the usual crys from the people who have an almost religious bias on this subject.
He does mention nuclear - it's included along with coal, oil and gas as "non-renewable" energy.
thirra
You are absolutely correct. Perhaps Aeldric and myself should have prefaced this article with a disclaimer. The thrust of the article is to clearly demonstrate that a BAU approach to this problem will simply not work. Lowering or eliminating population growth is probably the most straight forward and in some ways one of the easiest solutions to narrowing the time gap indicated in the analysis
While I accounted for nuclear energy in the analysis of remaining time I did not use nuclear as one of the renewable technologies. In it's current form (once through light water reactors) nuclear is not a solution (either short, medium or long term) from an energy depletion perspective. Future development of Thorium breeder reactors may provide a medium term solution to give us the breathing space to become fully renewable.