But in Deep Time Reckoning: How Future Thinking Can Help Earth Now, Vincent Ialenti argues that training our brains to think further out, which he calls “long-termism,” can benefit ourselves and the planet. To make his case, he highlights the work of Finnish nuclear waste experts, who have spent years considering the Earth’s past and its many possible futures in order to make a safety case for their final nuclear waste disposal site, buried deep underground beneath the Finnish coastline. https://edgeeffects.net/vincent-ialenti/
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Deep Time Reckoning
We live on a planet careening toward environmental collapse that will be largely brought about by our own actions. And yet we struggle to grasp the scale of ...
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Scientists Are Proposing a Radical New Framework to Redefine Life on Earth
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In your mind, is there a space for nuclear energy in a solarpunk future?
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60%
yes
40%
no
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It’s Not a Competition, But Renewables Are Beating Nuclear Anyway - Bloomberg
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-19/it-s-not-a-competition-but-renewables-are-beating-nuclear-anyway
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-19/it-s-not-a-competition-but-renewables-are-beating-nuclear-anyway
Bloomberg.com
It’s Not a Competition, But Renewables Are Beating Nuclear Anyway
There’s still a place for nuclear in the energy mix, if only investment would get back on track.
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