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Originally Posted by shakran
And we're still having a problem figuring out what to do with the waste of the plants we do have. We shouldn't make more waste until we can get rid of the stuff we already made. Once you tell me how to do that (and preferably in ways that do not require coming up with symbols for danger that theoretical future civilizations tens of thousands of years in the future can interpret so THEY don't die from it ( An Alert Unlike Any Other - Los Angeles Times ) and without having to design buildings to meet a code that requires they last a million years ( EPA Expected to Issue Million-Year-Long Regulation : NPR ) then I'm all for nuclear power. But to charge full speed ahead without knowing the solutions to these significant problems is foolhardy.
As to your other points, those industries that aren't polluting as much anymore are either doing it because they had to in order to comply with regulations, or because it is a side-effect of new manufacturing processes designed to economize. They certainly didn't do it out of a sense of stewardship to the planet. |
The tuna fishermen didn't change their habits because they wanted to kill less dolphins, they did it because they couldn't sell any tuna to people who wanted a dolphin free tuna purchase.
People aren't riding bikes just because they want a cleaner environment, some because they don't want to give money to oil companies.
As far as the whole idea about the future people, well we're able to decipher the Rosetta stone and put up the Voyager Golden Records. We're able to make a pictogram that transcend written language and still get point or idea across. I think that the very idea as that stopping is ludicrous at best.
France must have figured something out to do with that waste, as have other countries that have nuclear facilities. So again that idea doesn't float with me.
If I have to change, you have to change too. It can't be no compromise from the other side. Or is that the way that it works best, because that's what I tend to understand from the greenies and liberals, "I don't have to change, YOU have to change."
What about the fact I can't just toss out my cellphone batteries, laptops, TVs, comptuers, other electronic waste? Since I can't get rid of those, I don't think that these hybrid batteries will have any different conditions.
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