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> We don't need to worry about the longer term beyond about 50-100 years This is terribly irresponsible. Creating a massive problem for other people, and beli
by Bendingo 7y ago
> We don't need to worry about the longer term beyond about 50-100 years
This is terribly irresponsible.
Creating a massive problem for other people, and believing that the future will solve it, is the very definition of magical thinking.
- r00fus 7y agoYou just explained the same problem of waste in the petroleum economy. Which one is worse? Nuclear has one destabilizing factor: proliferation. Climate change will kill us more effectively however.
- roenxi 7y agoIt isn't a massive problem, it is a tiny problem. Our ancestors have done much the same thing to us and nobody notices, cares or is even inconvenienced. Australia has some truly monumental slag heaps if you know which desolate wastelands to look in. Thinking that you can run an industrial process with no waste is the magical thinking. Producing solar panels and wind turbines could easily produce more toxic waste watt-for-watt than nuclear does. Nobody is going to bother to check because the volumes are too small.