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Originally Posted by Mathgod
It's pretty simple, solar and wind can't come close to meeting the world's energy demand, so if you say no to nuclear, you are inescapably saying yes to more fossil fuels and accelerated climate change.
Entire swaths of the planet will become uninhabitable due to the climate there becoming too hot, too dry, or outright flooded. Increasing fossil fuel use only makes this happen sooner.
The effects of climate change could lead to billions of deaths and threaten human civilization entirely. For more details on the effects on climate change, see (starting at around 9:26):
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This is and old 2010 talking point.
I'll listen to good arguments that 100% solar and wind is a bad idea and shouldn't be the goal, but to say you can't get close is laughable. There's enough resources to built it, and enough capacity to do it easily.
There's arguments against it for reliability reasons, environmental reasons, and even economic reasons. You could definitely do it though