Global Warming - Bound to Burn

[Dauphin]

It's nothing particularly French. CO₂ per capita has decreased in the UK and Germany over the past 20 years, whilst GDP per capita has grown.

[Spiffor]

That's a very impressive figure. What do you think accounts for that tremendous decrease in greenhouse gas production per capita? Is it the decline of industrial production in the west or do you think it is the switch from coal to nuclear power which France has done? Maybe the increase in automotive fuel efficiency? Though France has always been more fuel efficient then countries like the US or Canada.

I couldn't say for sure, but I'd say all 3.

Also, we have more stringent environmental regulation on industry than we did in the 70ies.

[Ben Kenobi]

Isn't something like 80 percent of your power generation through Nuclear? I sure wish we could do that up here.

[Kuciwalker]

BK, stop spamming please. I'm not interested in your posts, and when you do post in a thread I can no longer tell at a glance if someone intelligent has posted in it because you now show up as the most reason poster.

[Ben Kenobi]

Well I'm sorry, it is an interesting thread!

[Seeker]

I think that the article implies a need to subsidize the building of modern nuclear reactors around the world.

IAEC should become a promoter rather than an inhibitor of nuclear energy.

[Aeson]

I agree that stocking food makes no sense because its impossible to determine when the end of the distribution system will come. That said I've heard the dried food the Mormons stock lasts a long time. It ought to, they've been at it for ages. Still there are countless bomb shelters from the '50s and '60s stocked with ancient food to attest that its hard to get the timing right. Better to own some food production, like the rice fields, that regularly supply you with food even before the system breaks down.

It doesn't have to be like that. For instance, you buy/keep a few extra bags of rice... it can keep for a couple years or so in a cool, dry place... so the next bag of rice you buy/keep, you take the oldest bag for eating... put the new bag at the end of the queue... so you always have a supply of rice to fall back on if the **** hits the fan.

Some things keep longer, some things not as long... but the basic principle applies to just about everything.