Nuclear is the answer

My years of lament about the countries refusal to deal with climate change will have to continue until Biden leaves office and maybe after that based on who his replacement will be. It seems he is wedded to solar panels and that will not solve the problem. Most solar panels are made in China but a few companies are in the US and Canada but China's product is 25% less expensive. Even if the US companies get more efficient, China still controls the market on rare earth metals. Metals such as cadmium, gallium, germanium, indium, selenium, and tellurium are important mineral materials used in current photovoltaic cell technology. It is only when the politicians are able to wean themselves away from the idea that wind and solar can replace fossil fuels that progress can start and it starts with the recognition that nuclear is the answer. Nothing wrong with using wind and solar, along with thermal but the backbone must be nuclear. Here is the plan. Continue to replace coal with natural gas and start building thorium nuke plants. Move to use natural gas for transportation until nuke power can be used to deionize water into hydrogen which will replace natural gas and the only bi-product is water. The same nuke plants can be used to desalt sea water and they use up stored nuke waste. They are much safer that uranium plants because they operate at normal pressure and automatically shut down when power is lost.