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.pxiii INTRODUCTION
pxiv most Amazon fires started by illegal land clearing, but climate change makes them more severe
pxiv Rio Grande do Sul, southern Brazil gateway to Uruguay☺
px . How Does the Land Use of Different Electricity Sources Compare?
- Hanna Ritchie
- Our World in Data, June 16, 2022v former (NOT NOW) eco-misanthrope, "... humans should go extinct ..."
pxv others David Attenborough
- Steven Hawking - humans chemical scum
  - misunderstood by Boemeke
  - "scum" == very thin and vulnerable biolayer film
  - .. on a vastly larger planet
  - .. in a frighteningly dangerous universe
  - implication: we must grow vastly more capable to protect the Earth
  - some say (including me) "the dinosaurs died because they didn't have a space program"
- #HumansAreTheVirus
pxvi young people pervasive hopelessness
pxvi David Deutsch 2011 The Beginning of Infinity CedarMill 501 DEUTSCH
pxvi every problem is solvable, if we have enough information about it

p019 ch2 HUMANS AND ENERGY
p019 Energy Is the Currency of the Universe
p022 Energy Timeline
p029 ch3 FOSSIL FUEL's FINAL BOSS
p031 How Nuclear Reactors Work
p039 Nuclear is RAD(IANT)
p042 note p220 Ch03n08
- How Does the Land Use of Different Electricity Sources Compare? Hanna Ritchie, Our World in Data, June 16, 2022
p043 'Land Use per KWh' wrong source, odd units, actual data here, units are m²-year per MWh, equivalent to m² per annual average watts divided by 114

Onshore wind not listed in source, this is presumably spacing of the wind turbines. The land underneath is probably not safe for human dwellings, but it can still be used for agriculture, PV, hydro reservoir, or landfill.
p049 80% of 400 soon-to-be-shut-down coal plants can be converted to nuclear plants
p049 note p220 Ch03n13 . Idaho National Laboratory, 2022
- Investigating Benefits and Challenges of Converting Retiring Coal Plants into Nuclear Plantsof
p053 Nuclear is Natural
p053 Oklo in Gabon . note p221 Ch03n20, Laura Gil August 10, 2018,

p054 Nuclear Has the Least Impact https://tim.blog/2023/03/24/david-deutsch-naval-ravikant-transcript/
p055 Levi Strauss: 73 pounds of CO₂ per pair of jeans
p059 ch4 DISPELLING MYTHS
p061 What About Chernobyl?
p061 1975 Banqiao Dam failure 61 downstream dams failed, thousands killed, 6.8M homes destroyed, ~220K died of famine
p063 note p222 Ch04n06 Hanna Ritchie, What Was the Death Toll from Chernobyl and Fukushima? Our World in Data, July 24, 2017
p064 XX || ||
p065
- RMBK XX
p068 What About Radiation?
p074 What About Uranium Mining?
0p75 note p223 Ch04n23 https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/nuclear-fuel-cycle/mining-of-uranium/environmental-aspects-of-uranium-mining World Nuclear Association, April 10, 2017
p077 Mining Sucks
p081 What About Tritium?
p084 What About Nuclear Waste?
p092 note p224 Ch04n47
p093 note p224 Ch04n48
p96 ch5 DEGROWTH
p97 The Problem with Degrowth
p101
p102 We Will Need a Lot of Electricity
p105
p106
p108 ch6 CLEAN ENERGY REVOLUTION
p108 100 Percent rEnEwAble
p108
p109
p111
p112 Clean Energy
p112
p114
p115
p117 The Ultimate Energy Diet
p117
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  . Laura Gil, "Meet Oklo, the Earth's Two-Billion-Year-Old Only Known Natural Nuclear Reactor", International Atomic Energy Agency, August 10, 2018  https://iaea.org/newscenter/news/meet-oklo-the-earths-two-billion-year-old-only-known-natural-nuclear-reactor
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[[ https://iaea.org/newscenter/news/meet-oklo-the-earths-two-billion-year-old-only-known-natural-nuclear-reactor | "Meet Oklo, the Earth's Two-Billion-Year-Old Only Known Natural Nuclear Reactor", International Atomic Energy Agency ]]