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It's not that outrage is not the answer, it is that there is no "the answer." Becoming a renewable and sustainable civilization is not something that will happen in 30 years, and we would be lucky to be at 100% by 2100.

We need electric cars and grid level storage to be able to fully replace fossil fuels. To even get there we have to be realistic about energy needs. I don't like fracking but I accept it as a lesser evil to King coal. I wouldn't want to live next to a nuclear plant but I understand how impossible it will be to continue energy consumption growth - renewables aside - without significant investment in nuclear energy or a staggering growth in fossil fuel use. We cannot pretend that in one or even two generations we will be magically powered by the sun and the wind any more than we can make believe that the world has unlimited fossil fuel resources and that we can burn them without consequence for ever and ever.

Climate change and sustainability is the rare beast that can only be felled by a death of a thousand cuts.