I learned about your venture from the Titans of Nuclear podcast. I hope that you keep in touch with Bret Kuglemass. We need a platform to discuss his ideas.
(Pro-tip: I'd suggest at least creating the podcast with a short intro *before* announcing it, so that when you announce it, we can subscribe at that time. Otherwise, it becomes a victim of short attention span).
I'm looking forward to hearing a bit more positivity about nuclear energy that will help persuade the millions who aren't active environmentalists but also don't know much about energy sources that nuclear energy is the thing that can help the most without making things worse. I believe that but I'm not sure that enough do. Good luck with the new endeavor, Emmet!
This is great! I agree with not fighting this on "their turf", but I will also say that I see a generational shift already underway from viewing "the environment" as some sort of bucolic, idyll separate and distinct from human activity towards a view that people are part of the environment and vice-versa, and the essential question that should be the focus of environmentalism is how do people live in and with the environment in such as way so as to enhance the wellbeing of both.
I love your podcast and your mission but your production value is so bad it makes it hard to listen. Please invest in a studio quality mic setup and/or get out of the middle school bathroom (or into any room without all the reflections). Your content is amazing it needs to sound great.
Knowing RE is basically a SCAM! That the GREENWASH Profit$ and Environmental=? NGO's are Anti-Science = Anti-Nuclear, that the Unreliable Grid advocated by https://www.utilitydive.com/ are all allied against Energy Sanity and truth, 2021 Nuclear Barbarian seems a good name to combat these Foes. Good Luck figuring a Legal, and Lawsuit method to sue the Environmental=? NGO's that are Anti-Science = Anti-Nuclear. $$$ 100 & 42 Million is Sierra Club & UCS / year budgets, alone . I believe the Truth will win, hopefully in the West, if Nuclear Barbarians are not censored.
Of course your central point and call to action are common sense answers to major problems, and I commend you for tackling the point head on. But there is one point you make that I cannot agree with. I think a Malthusian calculation should factor into our perspective, as people living in the post-industrial Western civilization, with regards to the industrializing 3rd world.
How can we possibly ignore the costs of permitting billions upon billions of people in Africa and South Asia trying to attain our lifestyles? Why must we compromise on our quality of life, when we have the material and technical means to not only fulfill them, but improve upon them? Nuclear energy should be the backbone of all Western electrical power generation, but we should not permit or share this development or the resources necessary to fuel it with others. They take from us, they take from everyone, and what merit is there in this exchange? The giddy feeling of moral righteousness from rebelling against the (incorrectly assumed to be malicious) interests of your own society and civilization?
No, the obvious answer is that we play hardball, we put limits on their growth that contain and mitigate the damage they are causing. Not because they have no right to it, and we do, or for any other liturgical moralistic rambling, but because we jeopardize our own survival to do otherwise. Degrowth should be the explicit foreign policy goal of Western economies towards China, towards the sub-Sahara, and towards South Asia. We must act as stalwart gatekeepers with the singular goal of preventing our own demise, not indifferent, mealy-mouthed subjectivists willing to sell out generation after generation for the sake of the locusts devouring the southern hemisphere.
Looking forward to all of this! I've been amazed at the depth that I've found listening to Ex.huast and how profoundly it has impacted me. Myself a millennial west coast transplant who grew up in Illinois, I was pretty instantly hooked. These conversations have really come at the right time and best of luck with this new journey, I'll be alongside while trying to sway my enviro friends out of their apocalyptic dystopias.
Cheers Emmet!
P.S. my brother is in nuclear and this has been great information for me to pass along.
I learned about your venture from the Titans of Nuclear podcast. I hope that you keep in touch with Bret Kuglemass. We need a platform to discuss his ideas.
Good luck! Do you have a link for the podcast?
(Pro-tip: I'd suggest at least creating the podcast with a short intro *before* announcing it, so that when you announce it, we can subscribe at that time. Otherwise, it becomes a victim of short attention span).
Thank Larry!
The podcast will be sent directly to your inbox via substack tomorrow. By subscribing to the substack, you've already subscribed to the podcast!
Perfect name. Combine unlimited energy with the "Barbarian" concept of tending the earth like gardeners instead of trying to dominate it.
Congrats Emmett! Best of luck in this new endeavour. Looking forward to some great analysis and writing.
Thanks Edgardo!!
Great to see this, Emmet!
Thanks, Meredith!!
Attaboy, Emmet. Great stuff.
Thanks Robert!
I'm looking forward to hearing a bit more positivity about nuclear energy that will help persuade the millions who aren't active environmentalists but also don't know much about energy sources that nuclear energy is the thing that can help the most without making things worse. I believe that but I'm not sure that enough do. Good luck with the new endeavor, Emmet!
Thanks John! I'm hoping to bring those very people into supporting nuclear.
This is great! I agree with not fighting this on "their turf", but I will also say that I see a generational shift already underway from viewing "the environment" as some sort of bucolic, idyll separate and distinct from human activity towards a view that people are part of the environment and vice-versa, and the essential question that should be the focus of environmentalism is how do people live in and with the environment in such as way so as to enhance the wellbeing of both.
Thank you! Let's hope it's a cresting wave and that we change some things!
Look forward to the podcast and newsletter! Congrats on this!
Thanks Laurie!!
I'm excited to see where this goes! As a minor note, the group's name is "Mothers for Nuclear Germany - Austria - Switzerland".
Thanks, Matt! Correcting that now.
Best wishes with this new venture!
Thanks Joe!!
I love your podcast and your mission but your production value is so bad it makes it hard to listen. Please invest in a studio quality mic setup and/or get out of the middle school bathroom (or into any room without all the reflections). Your content is amazing it needs to sound great.
I record in my living room and I'm in the middle of moving, so I'm not recording in an empty room. You'll have to hang in there until I move. Sorry.
Knowing RE is basically a SCAM! That the GREENWASH Profit$ and Environmental=? NGO's are Anti-Science = Anti-Nuclear, that the Unreliable Grid advocated by https://www.utilitydive.com/ are all allied against Energy Sanity and truth, 2021 Nuclear Barbarian seems a good name to combat these Foes. Good Luck figuring a Legal, and Lawsuit method to sue the Environmental=? NGO's that are Anti-Science = Anti-Nuclear. $$$ 100 & 42 Million is Sierra Club & UCS / year budgets, alone . I believe the Truth will win, hopefully in the West, if Nuclear Barbarians are not censored.
Of course your central point and call to action are common sense answers to major problems, and I commend you for tackling the point head on. But there is one point you make that I cannot agree with. I think a Malthusian calculation should factor into our perspective, as people living in the post-industrial Western civilization, with regards to the industrializing 3rd world.
How can we possibly ignore the costs of permitting billions upon billions of people in Africa and South Asia trying to attain our lifestyles? Why must we compromise on our quality of life, when we have the material and technical means to not only fulfill them, but improve upon them? Nuclear energy should be the backbone of all Western electrical power generation, but we should not permit or share this development or the resources necessary to fuel it with others. They take from us, they take from everyone, and what merit is there in this exchange? The giddy feeling of moral righteousness from rebelling against the (incorrectly assumed to be malicious) interests of your own society and civilization?
No, the obvious answer is that we play hardball, we put limits on their growth that contain and mitigate the damage they are causing. Not because they have no right to it, and we do, or for any other liturgical moralistic rambling, but because we jeopardize our own survival to do otherwise. Degrowth should be the explicit foreign policy goal of Western economies towards China, towards the sub-Sahara, and towards South Asia. We must act as stalwart gatekeepers with the singular goal of preventing our own demise, not indifferent, mealy-mouthed subjectivists willing to sell out generation after generation for the sake of the locusts devouring the southern hemisphere.
With enough energy the system goes closed circuit
We waste enough annually to provide for everyone
With unlimited energy there is no footprint. End of story.
Looking forward to all of this! I've been amazed at the depth that I've found listening to Ex.huast and how profoundly it has impacted me. Myself a millennial west coast transplant who grew up in Illinois, I was pretty instantly hooked. These conversations have really come at the right time and best of luck with this new journey, I'll be alongside while trying to sway my enviro friends out of their apocalyptic dystopias.
Cheers Emmet!
P.S. my brother is in nuclear and this has been great information for me to pass along.
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Thanks Theus! I'm so glad some of the ex.haust listenership is migrating over.