Richard Heinberg: The Inconvenient Truth on Clean Coal

[MountainMaster1]

Coal Mining supports my family and my community.

[SuperEndospore]

@MountainMaster1 So did gold mining did in mine, until the yields were too small.

[kraulth]

biochar, problem solved thx me later...

[meesterJos]

Good video, good message, but I've given up hope to politicians doing the right thing, I am sorry to say that. the earth is run like a business, and will go down as a businees, or otherwise due to the persuit of profit over survival. The anti-worry-lobby has won the war on reason and science. I wish that the truth would be obvious to the people, but it turns out that people can be given any truth they like to hear. Perhaps the end of humanity is a fact, and there is nothing I can do about it.

[McSuperfly5]

Good video, but one word of advice...delete the plug for your book or move it entirely to the end of the video. It turns your PSA into a commercial and the audience loses the message. Sales pitches are turn offs, but thanks for the video.

[postcarboninstitute]

@McSuperfly5 FYI: Almost all of Richard's books are released serially online and available for free. I can guarantee you that he, and PCI, don't publish to make a profit!

[etzel33]

cool

[Jakwood7690]

i watched your 300 seconds of fossil fuels video. i think this makes perfect sense

[AlexBradleyPopovich]

Wort video of the week. Go to hell. Coal is good. You are not.

[bogusnachos]

The median age of our coal plants is 40 years.  We wil have to replace most of our plant in the next 40 year anyway. We can do so by putting a clean, c02 free liquid fluoride thorium reactor in the parking lot of each coal burning plant. 30 years - no more coal burning and we will save trillions of dollars. ps we have millions of years of thorium.

[attackmike]

@MatrixReality2011 reducing doesnt not mean clean

[bddc201]

No Politician wants to implement " preventative" measures. Politicians want to be hailed as a hero who took the reins and led the country out of a "crisis". They're going to wait until the problem is bigger than life and impossible to ignore, just like everything else. Don't forget, they only paid attention to the health care crisis when it started bankrupting so many people that their corporate masters started grumbling.

[CandianBear]

20 years to change - starting now- WE HAVE TO PUSH NOW FOR CHANGE FOR 10 YEARS IS TOO LATE- the scale of the issues we face are immense- but we can change for it is in our power to change own footprint- if we can choose to do it- so can others and it will spread like a virus through society- but we have to change!! we can not demand change while sitting in a home consuming 25kw/h a day!! we need to understand how our homes sit in the environment- where our food comes from, etc- it's systemic!

[CandianBear]

we have a logic embedded within a economic system that will do what is required to keep the lights on short term- the people of the world are going to have to storm the parliments of the world and demand change- move into the halls of the house of commons in the uk canada australia and take the congress - if we don't do this, the lobby will continue to win- and the ramifications if we fail are as bad as Heinberg predicts then the Road, Mad Max or whatever nightmare we can dream up will be...

[CandianBear]

I am reading Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows - she writes that the peak of  extrac tion come much more quickly as the fraction of profits reinvested increases- basically when oil and coal become more expensive this will mean that for a time the profits from investing in producing more will increase! This brings about much steeper decline curves and opportunity costs for investmensts into renewables- I fear the basic logic of the system will bring about collapse before we can react....