National Emergency Briefing film

[muddy]

We are going to watch this today .

It's presented by Chris Packham 

https://www.nebriefing.org/screening-map

[klondike]

Going by by the presenter it's not going to be about either migrants or our failure to extract gas from the north sea or shale endangering our winter electricity supply. 

[muddy]

Climate change 
Will probably put the fear of God  into us ..



https://www.nebriefing.org/the-film

[Vlad]

David Attenborough he isn't. 

[muddy]

He certainly presented this very well.
It was very sobering .
Not for us the lucky generation but for our children and grandchildren .
Climate change is accelerating at a much greater speed that anyone expected .

This film should be shown in everywhere .

Actually it is being shown all over the country .

[Diasi]

It's all a load of rubbish.

Yes, the planet will heat up just as it did millions of years ago, then it will cool down just as it did millions of years ago.

Continents will split, islands will disappear, islands will be created just as they did millions of years ago.

[klondike]

I don't doubt that the climate is changing. I don't doubt that we'll need to make some big changes for our societies to continue to thrive in comfort. The problem is that the changes many of these greens want to make will leave us in a far more trouble than the changing climate even if ignored will cause us.

We are a technological society. We need energy for that to continue. Current renewables can't entirely replace fossil fuels and we will need to continue to exploit them for some time to come. Maybe until the end on the century. Just how long depends on how ingenious we are.

Fusion power has been twenty years away for at least the last fifty and probably still will be in another fifty. We need to improve renewables and storage of energy but our main saviour will be fission based nuclear power and the greens hate that idea. They'd rather we were eating sun dried cockroaches in our caves while dressed in leaves held in place with hand plaited vines.  Obviously only in areas where our nuts don't freeze off in winter. If they win out then that's exactly what we will be doing.

[muddy]

The world has never had to cope with humans burning up fossil fuels into the atmosphere before .

[JBR]

Yes, fusion power is many years away, I agree.
However, we still use nuclear fission to generate electricity and this has been developed sufficiently to make it both reliable and safe.  There is no reason why it cannot continue and even be expanded if necessary. 
Yes, of course, the waste products need to be disposed of safely, I believe underground where, despite perhaps remaining potentially dangerous for many years, will be of no harm if kept out of reach potentially for ever.