John Shanahan, civil engineer. Reflections on the importance of getting out in nature. Think of the fossil fuels that are needed to travel to these places, to build the airplanes, boats and vehicles, to manufacture the high tech equipment and clothing. Extreme environmentalists claim they need to save the world from catastrophic, out of control, global warming by insisting that everyone stop using fossil fuels. Don't go to the mountains. What kind of a world will it be with only energy from windmills and solar panels manufactured by the energy from other windmills, etc. And lastly, the materials for the windmills would have to be mined by energy from windmills or use wooden windmills. Other extreme environmentalists claim that the whole world can go nuclear in 50 to 100 years. Would you bet you life savings on that? The world desperately needs good government and sound energy planning with fossil fuels and nuclear.
