Scotland temporarily ran entirely on wind power as turbines generated over 200 percent of national electricity demand.

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16. The best ways to halt human population growth are not coercive.

The economic and political empowerment of women, universal access to birth control, and realistic sex education are very effective.

Not coincidentally, these are all things "conservatives" of many religions and political ideologies oppose.

I don't believe a brutal decline of the human population by great suffering and death is "baked in the cake." The solution to the problem is obvious but somehow hard to implement. We just have to agree that every human deserves a comfortable and secure place to live, healthy food, clean water, and basic medical care.

Most of the horrors of the modern world are brought upon us by people who do not believe this.

For various reasons I don't think fusion (excluding that which occurs in the sun) will ever be a viable energy resource for humankind. That's okay, fission works well and we've been building fission power plants for more than seventy years now. If we can halt our population growth and quit regarding one another as "consumers" to the detriment of our physical and mental health, nuclear fission can power our civilization indefinitely, beyond the "seven generation sustainability" many environmentalists talk about. ( As someone interested in evolutionary biology I tend to think in longer time scales. The beginning of the Miocene epoch was yesterday morning. )

If a was formulating a conspiracy theory I might say that "renewable energy" and fusion are being promoted for the purpose of prolonging our dependence on fossil fuels.