> As a species, we are still arrogant that we know how the future will pan out. the fact that we don't know what the future will pan out, doesn't mean we shoul

> As a species, we are still arrogant that we know how the future will pan out. the fact that we don't know what the future will pan out, doesn't mean we shouldn't take precautions. Everybody knows that a lock won't keep a determined thief out, but we lock the door nonetheless to make their job a little bit harder, enough to discourage the average ones. It works the same way here: there will be much better places in the future to steal the same materials. > Maybe a few hundreds of years, or thousands, but we just don't know what inventions the future will bring And yet you predicted only the worse outcome, not the best. We decide what to expect from the future, we don't predict it. Maybe in the future we'll invent technologies that will make nuclear waste as safe as clean water and kids will play with it. Who knows?