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Al Gore - new video on global warming

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  • #2
    sarahirl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 119 ✭✭sarahirl


    thanks a mil for adding this - ted.com is great for this kinda thing... if you don't have time to read the book, watch a 20 minute presentation.

    so i took from this that we're more screwed than we were when an inconvenient truth was screened but that human innovation can pull us through if we lobby politicians enough to get them to raise environmental concerns to top of the politicial agenda.


  • #3
    Ivan
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 4,569 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ivan


    Reading some of the comments, something of significant humour struck me...

    One of the guys commented on how, in a nut-shell, we shouldnt bother listening to the majority of Al Gore's argument because he has personal interest in the so-called Clean Energy industry. What struck me as funny was, if I were in his position I would too. Because if he is right, and there seems to be a fair amount of evidence (hypothesis?) to support that he is, then the options for us as a race is
    A) Invest in "Green" Energy or B) Die.

    Seems like a win-win investment on his part, if you ask me ;)


  • #4
    sarahirl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 119 ✭✭sarahirl


    well he did have a disclaimer on one of the slides and he read out the disclaimer saying he was an investor in xxxx (can't remember what it was now).

    also the whole ethical investment/sustainable finance/eco stocks - they're growing year on year and if you take wind energy, the amount produced by wind turbines is increasing with each successive generation. biofuel is in it's infancy but the potential is huge if we can figure out how to get microbes to devour agricultural waste and produce lots of fuel from it. the stats on all this type of investment are going (for the most part) up, so even if (in the extremely unlikely event 1000s of scientists are wrong) anyone who invested 'green' is gonna come out with cash


  • #5
    AngryHippie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,625 ✭✭✭AngryHippie


    Just a small point on that, Agricultural waste doesn't amount to much, Animal waste is largely used as a natural fertilizer, Right now is a good time to find it too, just head to the countryside and inhale through your nose, thats microbial recycling in action.
    Waste from feedstuffs is recycled for the most part since 2000 or so through repak.
    A far more constructive use of your miraculous microbes would be the breakdown of human waste, As it cannot be re-circulated into the food production chain without extensive and expensive tertiary treatment, If some energy gain could be made from municipal sludge waste prior to the dewatering stage of treatment, you'd be talking about a massive potential.
    I wouldn't get too carried away by the biofuel potential either, unless there is a way of producing crops for them from previously unusable land, they will only be taking away from land needed to feed the planets exploding population. I don't mean to piss on your parade, but the problems are deep and complex, If the food runs out cash ain't gonna save anyone.
    (unless they've spent it on a high wall, and sufficient land and water to survive the potential of an anarchic hungry 21st century society)
    There, I said it.


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