Jasper Tomlinson explains UK Molten Salt Nuclear Reactors, Dialect Bristol FM 30 Nov 2016, RIP 2021

Jasper Tomlinson explains Molten salt nuclear reactors Dialect Bristol FM 30 Nov 2016
[Sadly Jasper became a victim of the experimental Covid vaccines, passing away from blood clots early in 2021]

MILLIONS OF TIMES GREENER THAN GREEN?
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41 The Environment | June 2015

The April 2015 edition of The
Environment included an
advertisement featuring Sir
David Attenborough, as
patron of Population Matters,
emphasising the difficulties of addressing
environmental problems in a world with
ever more people. Sir David and I are
both from about the same generation. He
was good enough in a brief exchange of
letters in 2011 to share his thoughts with
me on the way forward in addressing
global population growth. His letter was
in reply to a suggestion from me that
improved global access to abundant,
sustainable, affordable energy is a
necessary part of the way forward.
However, even if practical, Sir David
suspected that rather than address the
problem, it might do quite the reverse,
encouraging human beings to think that

there is no need to curb their ever-
expanding energy consumption and thus

perpetrate further devastation on the
natural world.
Deep division of opinion on these
lines is apparent in any consideration of
‘green’ initiatives. I am grateful for this
opportunity to set out my stall,
presenting a case for techno-optimism.

THE CHALLENGE
Tackling global energy poverty by
providing wide access to energy -
electricity in particular – can be seen as
relevant by comparing two sets of
information. One set relates to amounts
of available energy and poverty levels.
The information in Graph 1 shows
personal incomes able to rise above
poverty levels where annual energy
consumption is above 2,000 kilowatt
hours per person, which is equivalent
to nearly six kilowatt hours per day,

including both domestic and work-
place usage.

Fertility, in terms of the number of
children per woman, is observed to drop
below the stable replacement rate - just
over two children per woman - for
people who are not in poverty (Graph 2).
One reason for this is that rural people
moving to urban conditions become
second-generation urban-dwellers who
choose to have a family of two children.
The choice is reinforced by better
educational opportunities and food
security available in urban centres.
For most readers the conjectured link
between world population growth and
increase in greenhouse gases in the
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