http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/6/8/165835/4175
Great discussion Karen
"...not to forget the hundreds of thousands of Americans, tens of millions of people worldwide, who die every decade directly from fossil fuel waste."
Yes fossil fuel is awful at the scale it is currently used. So is nuclear power.
The solution is blowing in the wind, the cleanest, cheapest, immediate replacement for fossil fuel and ever widening nuclear contamination.
At the Paduchah Kentucky plant that makes all the fuel for nuclear power plants, plutonium has been spreading out into the groundwater for decades. The contamination of this resource, that is vital to life itself, has spread miles already during the industry coverup.
It is flowing into the confluence of the Ohio and Tennessee rivers down through the Mississippi valley to the gulf. Have you eaten any Louisuana quisine lately? Crawfish and shrimp from that wonderful ecosystem?
What is life itself in all its wonderful variety of experience worth? Can you insure life itself for "accidents" like this plutonium contamination of a whole region?
Give it up. Go solar, go electric.
Oil, coal, nuclear fission must all become just a horrible warning from history or there will be no one to read a history book left.
The dark future of spaceship earth impelled by evil men like Lord Cheney of Halliburton. Hehey.
Dark humor? Better to laugh than cry.
Those who learn from history are doomed to watch others repeat it.
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