Silly rhetoric about curbing carbon emissions won’t give humanity the power it needs. Our best strategy is greater use of natural gas now leading to nuclear power in the near future
By M.H. WARD, Times Colonist, June 13, 2025
The last thing the world needs is more ill-informed amateur dramatics from unruly mobs of self-styled activists.
In his June 5 opinion article, “Our only hope is to become environmental activists,” Frants Attorp tells us that “global temperatures keep rising in tandem with greenhouse gases,” but fails to present a solution other than that we must “adjust our lifestyle choices.”
He would do well to remember another tandem relationship: per capita GDP is tightly correlated with per capita energy consumption (Figure 1).… Read more