Missourians for Safe Energy is committed to achieving a sustainable energy future for ourselves and for those who’ll come after us. We recognize that a workable scenario must be based upon:
1) Getting energy efficient and
2) Switching to renewable energy sources.
To protect and restore our climate, we need to eliminate the use of carbon-based fossil fuels as quickly as we can. We need to go Carbon-Free.
And, both due to costs and to other serious problems, nuclear fission power has no place in a sustainable future. We also need to go Nuclear-Free.
The best comprehensive roadmap we’ve seen to get us to this workable future is the one laid out by Dr. Arjun Makhijani in his groundbreaking book Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free. It is available for free download in full or in summary form at carbonfreenuclearfree.org. The book can also be purchased at the Peace Nook or at many other bookstores.
Dr. Makhijani lays out the technical options available both to reduce the energy used per function performed in our society, and to provide the energy we need from clean sources. Missourians for Safe Energy is a member of the Carbon-Free Nuclear-Free Alliance, a network of groups around the nation working for this sort of sustainable energy future.
Besides Carbon-Free Nuclear-Free, there are a number of other studies that point to a workable future with scenarios that involve dramatic cuts in the use of fossil fuels and eschewing the nuclear option. These include:
• Google 2030 Clean Energy: Google has put forward a plan to grow the economy while dramatically cutting fossil fuel use, by increase energy efficiency and the use of renewables.
• Energy [R]evolution: Greenpeace and the European Renewable Energy Council commissioned a study by the German Aerospace Center that demonstrates an efficiency and renewables-based plan for dramatic reductions in fossil fuel use and greenhouse gas emissions here in the United States.