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The urgency is different. You don't earthquake-proof your house while the living room is on fire.
by nharada 5y ago
The urgency is different. You don't earthquake-proof your house while the living room is on fire.
- Wowfunhappy 5y agoAn even more apt analogy might be: if your living room is on fire, you should dump water on it. You shouldn't let the fire rage because the water could damage the carpet.
- metalliqaz 5y agoit's not an apt analogy. We can do both! There's no reason that we can't legislate proper waste handling with the subsidies. No reason whatsoever.
- Wowfunhappy 5y agoYou can either let the fire rage while you make a plan for how to repair the carpet, or you can pour the water now and deal with the carpet later. There is in fact a limit to how much you can get legislatures to do at once. I’m all for coming up with policies for nuclear waste, I just don’t think it should hold up the construction of reactors. The world is on fire.
- metalliqaz 5y agowhy fight so hard against even trying???
- Wowfunhappy 5y agoWe should try! But I think the logical end result of "we should do X hard thing before Y" will be that Y never gets done! It's almost like a form of bike shedding—except that the bike shed is in fact important, but its construction can trail launch, and launch is on a tight deadline.