Bill Nye: We Created a Wonderful Quality of Life by Burning Ancient Carbon, Swamps and Gas, We Need to Stop

EXCERPT:

NYE: “So, if I could convince people in one sitting, that would be fabulous, but that has proven quite difficult. I tell everybody, it takes — it takes years for people to see the evidence, see the evidence, and the problem we have in climate change is we don’t have a 9/11 or a Pearl Harbor. It’s slow motion. So everybody that I speak with acknowledges that the climate is changing. Just the — the nudge that we work on and people on my side of this is pointing out that humans are causing it, and we’re doing it because we have been — we have had — created this wonderful quality of life for so many people by burning ancient carbon, ancient swamps, coal, oil, gas. We just got to stop doing that, and so there are many alternative sources of energy, but we have to work together to share it. And I’m talking about transmission lines and energy storage, as well as developing more efficient renewable sources at the same time. Better solar panels, better wind turbines, and this mythic thing that people are talking about is fusion, but that could — it’s decades away, but nevertheless, it’s in the future.”