> On Jan 26, 2026, at 20:37, Duane Filan via groups.io > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Mark - "we will need to destroy > retire, or constrain most fossil based production. What am I missing?" > > A wild guess, nuclear power based production.
I was thinking of primary and secondary fossil-fuel industries such as oil sands (primary) and plastics (secondary). I mentioned fertilizer, which is secondary and uses fossil fuel inputs, and we cannot stop making fertilizers like that by next year or even five. But we don't need to stop using fossil fuels, even in the US, but reduce their use. We can do that, in part, by finding ways to reduce energy demand, and then the US would not need as much nuclear-power generation. To reduce demand, we could start by retiring AI data centers, or at least tax them according to the costs to society - and the same with power-hungry crypto coin "mining." Mark -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#40395): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/40395 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/117483986/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
