This week’s heatwave is causing my nose to bleed. We are hitting temperature of what feels like 42 deg C (108 F).

When you are from a tropical rainforest countries like ours that’s far from a fault line, you don’t really talk abt the weather. You just enjoy it. It’s pretty perfect.

And it was like that - until abt 10 yrs ago when haze from deforestation, over-industrialisation, peat fires, thunderstorms, flood started kicking in.

Climate change is real.

- Denying it is silly. Capitalising over it ie wef is cruel

- Logging is needed. Corrupted and uncontrolled logging should go

- Carbon trade is strategic. But bullying 3rd world country into trading should go.

- Oil and Gas is needed. But it could use a lot of impactful preventive methods (I work with a startup on this)

- Fast fashion is bad. Every year, from America alone several million tans of synthetic waste is dumped onto the landfills of South America and Africa.

- Renewable energy is good. You don’t need to make it mandatory but you could innovate on it.

- Nuclear is good.

This is a great book on understanding nuclear as green energy.

A few things are crucial in green energy,

1) baseload (grid power used in cities) - so far only fossil fuels (coal) hydro, and nuclear are used. Wind and solar are not used as they are intermittent. Coal is used by 2/3 of the world

2) landscape - A nuclear plant producing 1,000 megawatts takes up 1/3 a square mile. A wind farm would have to cover over 200 square miles to obtain the same result, and a solar array over 50 square miles

3) hazard comparison - between coal waste and nuclear waste.

Nuclear waste is minuscule - one Coke can’s worth per person-lifetime of electricity.

Coal waste is massive—68 tons of solid stuff and 77 tons of carbon dioxide per person-lifetime of strictly coal electricity.

Nuclear waste goes into dry cask storage, kept in small area, controlled & monitored.

A 1-gigawatt coal plant burns 3 million tons of fuel a yr, produces 7 million tons of CO2, goes into everyone’s atmosphere affecting food chain, air pollution,lung diseases etc