I was trying to think of a pithy retort but the best I can come up with is “fuck off you sanctimonious bell end”

Entirely valid and I agree that continual growth is right at the heart of most of our problems. I guess most of my frustration comes from the fact we’ve had at least 40 years of warning, 20 more years of proper, severe warning and promises for action and now that we’re seeing day in, day out that all the warnings were right, we’re still not moving with any real purpose. I genuinely thought that COVID would show us what we need to do and how we could do it but nope, slipped right back into business as usual.

It’s already feasible in parts of the world, Iceland being one of the best examples. Places like Cornwall in the south of England could be made to have geothermal with a bit of work and there’s many locations around the world that lie between the two. It’s a great resource that offers eye watering amounts of power, readily and easily, 24/7 reliability and with no greenhouse gases.

The issues come for the rest of the world in that you need to dig deeper to get the right heat but that’s > just> engineering and we’ve overcome similar extremes before, seee off shore drilling/wind turbines etc… Money and time is something that’s needed. Money seems to be less available which is mine numbingly frustrating given the damage that’s coming if we don’t get our shit together. Time is something we don’t have in abundance especially with what little money there is.

It’s something I hope we see a lot more of but I’m a pessimist these days so I’m not holding my breath.

That wasn’t always a thing. This is a new and rapidly evolving area with issues that will be solved. Hell, battery chemistry is changing rapidly already. ICE cars have been death traps for most of their life and are still at higher risk of going in flames and just as violently, case in point the car carrier that went on fire that everyone just knew was an EV, wasn’t. It was a shitty old ice. Luton Airport too. Everyone knew that was a. EV. Was a shitty old diesel and that car park suffered serious structural damage because of it. In addition the AA claim that the majority of ICE fire are because of the 12v battery. None of this is new it’s just different.

We don’t have time to perfect and mature the tech though. That was 40 years ago. Now it’s whatever fucking works that isn’t fossil fuels and burning of them. It’s a damn sight safer than an ICE which is actually carrying extremely combustible liquids in it too. It’s not perfect but it’s better and this kind of " we have to hold off" is effectively supporting the status quo which is fuckig everything up as it is.