Comments on: Exclusive to Transition Culture – An Interview with Tony Juniper, part 2. Climate Change, Technofixes and TEQs. http://transitionculture.org/2007/02/26/exclusive-to-transition-culture-an-interview-with-tony-juniper-part-2-climate-change-technofixes-and-teqs/ An Evolving Exploration into the Head, Heart and Hands of Energy Descent Sun, 14 Mar 2010 08:35:12 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Bri http://transitionculture.org/2007/02/26/exclusive-to-transition-culture-an-interview-with-tony-juniper-part-2-climate-change-technofixes-and-teqs/comment-page-1/#comment-53234 Bri Fri, 14 Dec 2007 21:35:55 +0000 http://transitionculture.org/2007/02/26/exclusive-to-transition-culture-an-interview-with-tony-juniper-part-2-climate-change-technofixes-and-teqs/#comment-53234 <p>This is the biggest piece of nonsense I've ever read. No answers to hard questions. Then there is now REAL doubt that man is causing global warming anyway as a heat sink as been discovered under Greenland and man only produces 1/2 of 1% of all carbon emmissions anyway. And that current global warming is far within statistical variances of the past 10,000 years-- meaning the globe has warmed up faster and farther than this before for short periods when man was preindustrial. I say only the people worried about global warming should pay all the costs of stopping it... if they are truly committed they will.</p> This is the biggest piece of nonsense I’ve ever read. No answers to hard questions. Then there is now REAL doubt that man is causing global warming anyway as a heat sink as been discovered under Greenland and man only produces 1/2 of 1% of all carbon emmissions anyway. And that current global warming is far within statistical variances of the past 10,000 years– meaning the globe has warmed up faster and farther than this before for short periods when man was preindustrial. I say only the people worried about global warming should pay all the costs of stopping it… if they are truly committed they will.

]]> By: David Unson http://transitionculture.org/2007/02/26/exclusive-to-transition-culture-an-interview-with-tony-juniper-part-2-climate-change-technofixes-and-teqs/comment-page-1/#comment-51447 David Unson Mon, 18 Jun 2007 17:17:49 +0000 http://transitionculture.org/2007/02/26/exclusive-to-transition-culture-an-interview-with-tony-juniper-part-2-climate-change-technofixes-and-teqs/#comment-51447 <p>The emergence of PO and CC together in the headlines is very opportune, a wake up call. CC tells us that we should drastically reduce our dependence of carbon based sources of energy and on a world wide scale, shift to non-CO2 producing sources where ever possible in order to continue mankind's survival on planet earth. With a shift to solar, wind and more importantly, nuclear power, we will automatically solve the problem with Peak Oil. The world, especially the advanced countries, need to rapidly expand their usage of nuclear power to produce base electric generation. France has partially addressed the problem of nuclear waste and security. They are working on more advanced solutions. For the long term, research on fast breeder reactors need to be intensified so the world will have an infinite source of electric power to sustain human civilization.</p> <p>As to India and China towing the line, this is not a problem. They need more power to support most of their production activities related to exports. As major importers, the US and EU can take action to reduce imports from these countries.</p> <p>Of course the real reason why we have a Climate Change problem is because the world is now overpopulated. The amount of energy needed to support each person throughout his lifetime today is just way too high compared to that before the industrial revolution. The world needs to curb population growth. China is way ahead of everyone in this category.</p> The emergence of PO and CC together in the headlines is very opportune, a wake up call. CC tells us that we should drastically reduce our dependence of carbon based sources of energy and on a world wide scale, shift to non-CO2 producing sources where ever possible in order to continue mankind’s survival on planet earth. With a shift to solar, wind and more importantly, nuclear power, we will automatically solve the problem with Peak Oil. The world, especially the advanced countries, need to rapidly expand their usage of nuclear power to produce base electric generation. France has partially addressed the problem of nuclear waste and security. They are working on more advanced solutions. For the long term, research on fast breeder reactors need to be intensified so the world will have an infinite source of electric power to sustain human civilization.

As to India and China towing the line, this is not a problem. They need more power to support most of their production activities related to exports. As major importers, the US and EU can take action to reduce imports from these countries.

Of course the real reason why we have a Climate Change problem is because the world is now overpopulated. The amount of energy needed to support each person throughout his lifetime today is just way too high compared to that before the industrial revolution. The world needs to curb population growth. China is way ahead of everyone in this category.

]]> By: Ben Brangwyn http://transitionculture.org/2007/02/26/exclusive-to-transition-culture-an-interview-with-tony-juniper-part-2-climate-change-technofixes-and-teqs/comment-page-1/#comment-26254 Ben Brangwyn Mon, 26 Feb 2007 15:06:33 +0000 http://transitionculture.org/2007/02/26/exclusive-to-transition-culture-an-interview-with-tony-juniper-part-2-climate-change-technofixes-and-teqs/#comment-26254 <p>I'm a bit surprised that he didn't explicitly make the connection between China/India industrialisation and the excessive consumption of the products they build by the West. We stop buying their stuff, they won't make it. Not rocket science.</p> <p>Re TEQs, I think many of the practicalities have been thought through and that it could work using todays' technologies. Also, when he suggests the government should focus on other reduction strategies rather than TEQs, how about a bit of "both/and" instead of "either/or". Or am I being over-optimistic...</p> <p>Incidentally, I searched for a while but couldn't find the 10% reduction through sequestration document that he refers to.</p> I’m a bit surprised that he didn’t explicitly make the connection between China/India industrialisation and the excessive consumption of the products they build by the West. We stop buying their stuff, they won’t make it. Not rocket science.

Re TEQs, I think many of the practicalities have been thought through and that it could work using todays’ technologies. Also, when he suggests the government should focus on other reduction strategies rather than TEQs, how about a bit of “both/and” instead of “either/or”. Or am I being over-optimistic…

Incidentally, I searched for a while but couldn’t find the 10% reduction through sequestration document that he refers to.

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