Environment & Energy

... doing nothing in the long run to reduce the total amount of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gasses this civilization dumps into earth's atmosphere.

Wind and solar are entirely dependent on fossil fuels, especially natural gas, for their economic viability.

You won't see many wind and solar enthusiasts calling for a total ban on natural gas, and the natural gas industry is not fighting every new wind and solar project. Most everyone involved recognizes the co-dependency. They are still building wind farms in Texas and Eastern New Mexico, areas where the primary economic activity is gas extraction.

Here in California we've already reached the point of diminishing returns on new solar and wind projects, and that's in spite of our state's massive water transfer projects ability to source and sink large amounts of electric power to balance supply with demand.

Here's a good place to explore the statistics worldwide. I've arbitrarily set California as the entry point:

https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/US-CAL-CISO/12mo

Comparing the German electric grid to France's electric grid on this map is informative.

Like it or not, nuclear power is the only energy resource capable of displacing fossil fuels entirely which is something we must do if we wish to preserve what little remains of the natural environment as we've known it.