I ran similar numbers on eco-doomsday while writing a pro nuclear energy book called “Yucca Mountain Blueprint”. Now I don’t believe the global warming baloney, but just for kicks I figured America could save $8 QUADRILLION dollars by 2100 going all nuclear and saving us from the scourge of global warming.
According to these Luddites the earth is a teakettle being boiled away by stupid humans. I had this argument with a global warming scientist recently. I asked her why the ants were not doing more damage than humans. In sheer biomass ants are far more prevalent and shape their environment for their own convenience just like humans.
She replied, “they are part of nature.” When I asked her where humans came from if not nature, she was stumped. I suggested “God, just like the ants,” but she would have none of it.