We don’t need more nuclear energy.
We need LESS energy production.
We need LESS wasted energy. (Think universal mass transit, energy efficient non-air conditioned buildings, smaller more efficient appliances, less shipping of products around the world and more local, sustainable production of food and goods).
We need LESS consumption. (Think smaller houses and cars, longer lasting technology instead of phones and screens which are replaced yearly, zero plastic).
We need LESS productivity. (20 hour work weeks on a living wage, time and resources for parents to raise their child instead of expecting schools to do it, time for healthy leisure activities.)
We need LESS economic inequality. (No billionaires, no millionaires even. Everyone with enough but not obscene excess.)
We need FEWER people. (Free contraception, extensive sex education, free college tuition so that everyone has true choices.)
We need MORE of a connection to nature. Time (and money and jobs) spent restoring it, marveling in it, respecting it.
The answer is not MORE, MORE, MORE. The answer is LESS of almost everything.
From an anonymous reader in the New York Times
To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.
Mary Oliver