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Originally Posted by HarryT
Nuclear power does not generate "greenhouse gases".
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Agreed they don't.
You know I'll have to seat my "but" here somewhere. Nothing personal Harry. I respect you.
1. "Greenhouse gasses" are not the only pollution sources to fight.
2. All thermal gereration stations are a threat to the immediate surrounding ecology as they warm the rivers. I include coal and natural gas for the same drawback.
3. Tchernobyl is closed and so is the surrounding
region.
4. We have decided that our children and their offspring will take care of the poison leftover for 25000 years. That's more than the age of civilization. A human being is notable for slipups and breaches in concentration.
5. Every nuclear installation and containment devices are built of materials with a duration integrity shorter than the duration of toxicity for irradiated matter. Speaking of which, numerous reactors have to be decommisionned in the next future because of building material failure.
The list could continue on and on (250,000 years). The 5 preceding are enough to tell someone with good sense to back off. Our greed and selfishness will be responsible for our downfall.
As an ending note,
every energy source exploitation has an intrinsic effect on our surrounding ecology and further on the dynamics of our spaceship Earth. The existence of humanity based on an exploitation of the ecology rather than a simple interaction with it dooms the future of the whole system and so forth mankind itself. We must choose ways that bring us in line with basic concepts that are in the nature of a simple animal or a mimickry of those of plantlife; we
must reduce our footprint. Personnally I think we have passed the point of no return. My drop in the bucket will not reverse the damage, but I will smile back and keep on doing the right thing.
Go solar!