The Beginning of the Age of Fossil Fuel

Image by New America Foundation via Flickr"Are we living at the beginning of the Age of Fossil Fuels, not its final decades? The very thought goes against everything that politicians and the educated public have been taught to believe in the past generation."

So writes Michael Lind, Policy Director of the Economic Growth Program at the New America Foundation.

The one thing really galling about the whole climate debate is that it is impossible to have just that: a debate. A debate means that both sides, and the middle, get a chance to put forward their respective points of view.

In the climate debate chamber, the other side or climate skeptics do not seem to be allowed to air their points of view without being denounced as some sort of heretics.

Michael Lind puts forward a perfectly reasonable pint of view that needs to be listened to for a balanced debate.

from Salon.com

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And please note:

"Nuclear energy already provides around 13-14 percent of the world’s electricity and nearly 3 percent of global final energy consumption, while wind, solar and geothermal power combined account for less than one percent of global final energy consumption."