chitwnvw wrote:Burning fuel, whatever it is, is like slavery. We humans are trying to get something for nothing, a free ride. If you burn this or that it will do the work of x men or women. In the end, nothing is free, for every upside is a downside. If you want to enjoy the upside of enslavement you must deal with the nasty down side. It is stored energy that we are stealing, we didn't work for it. This is who we are. Deal with it.
Good analysis. Every option has its up and down sides. Nuclear has its downsides, agreed. It has an upside too, I would think, considering everything. It would be a counteraction to the.., well, we shouldn't bring the subject up AGAIN NOW. Every type of energy has its problems. "Fossil fuels", "renewable", etc., ALL have problems. None is 100% "safe" or efficient. I don't think anything, ever, was safe and efficient to any standard, unless 6 billion people could exist on the planet with stone-age technology, i.e. ALL, or most, in the warmer latitudes using horses, carriages, etc., and as hunter-gatherers instead of a surplus agriculturally based civilization.
I personally celebrate the advancements in comfort and standards of living various technologies have enabled, instead of demonizing it.
Yes, concern for the future is appropriate, but only within a scientific frame of view, not an alarmist one.
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