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isn't pollution a price we, kinda, have to pay to move to the next step? See USA until EPA, China etc... You reach a certain level of industrialization and the

• JumpCrisscross 8y ago
  > isn't pollution a price we, kinda, have to pay to move to the next step? Not this much. When the West industrialised, we didn’t have natural gas or nukes. Today we do. The problem is (a) Coal India is a jobs factory and (b) India’s massive corruption makes regulation more challenging than it was in the West or is in China. (China has done an excellent job of moving pollution away from population centres.)
  • onetimemanytime 8y ago
    >>When the West industrialised, we didn’t have natural gas or nukes Is natural gas cheap in India? Nukes have their own issues. See Chernobyl and Fukushima...unless you build them 1000 miles away in a desert (not feasible--water and transmission issues.) Pollution in horrible and takes lives, but so does poverty. The lesser of two evils might be found somewhere in the middle. >>(China has done an excellent job of moving pollution away from population centres.) But they had it there initially. So did the USA, you can still see the old chimneys
    • cfadvan 8y ago
      Nukes have their own issues. See Chernobyl and Fukushima...unless you build them 1000 miles away in a desert (not feasible--water and transmission issues.) This is like saying that airships have a lot of issues because of the Hindenburg disaster. Technology has come a long way since either Chernobyl or Fukushima were built! Nuclear plants can be made very safe, and as a bonus won’t contribute to the deaths of millions from pollution.