Capitalism is not just the reason climate change is destroying our planet.it is also the reason we wonтАЩt be able to stop global warming. No matter how man times I virtuously clean out a peanut putter jar for recycling, I am not going to affect global warming one little bit. My footprint is too small and recycling is a distraction. Most recycling is too expensive so it quietly ends up in a landfill somewhere. ItтАЩs busy work to keep us from panicking.
I hate capitalism, too but IтАЩm not the far left. I donтАЩt know who you mean by the тАЬfar leftтАЭ. Is there any far left public figure or organization or movement you can name?
Nuclear waste is a problem that stops the argument in favour of nuclear energy in its tracks. Using a controlled nuclear reaction as a substitute for oil and gas just substitutes the pollution of nuclear waste for carbon pollution. Until there is a secure way to manage nuclear waste with a half life of 125,000 years, we are just leaving the disposal/storage problem for our grandchildren. We canтАЩt secure nuclear waste for 100 years, let alone 125,00.
The nuclear industry was stopped back in the seventies because of the nuclear waste problem. They have bided their time, waiting for the people who convinced the world not to go nuclear to die. Most of them haveтАж so hereтАЩs the nuclear industry trying again. It was an insoluble problem then and it is an insoluble problem now. The planet already has an existential threat on its hands. We donтАЩt need to resurrect another.
Have you ever heard of Hellen Caldicott? For that matter, construction costs are still too high. Nuclear waste is being тАЬstoredтАЭ on site against the wishes of the surrounding communities who were promised in the seventies that it was only temporary. The nuclear industry agrees that storage on site is temporary, although it has been there for decades in some instances. Industry is searching for abandoned mines to be deep geological storage. Every community that is a proposed site is against it. By the way, nuclear officials give the time needed for nuclear waste not to be a hazard is 400,000 years.
Who can guarantee safe storage for 400,000 years? Or even half life at 125,000 years? No one. ThatтАЩs the problem. No one wants to live next to nuclear waste.the nuclear waste we already have is stored at multiple former nuclear reactors now and people living there want it gone. But no place wants to accept it.
There is no place to put nuclear waste. Until such a place and a safe storage method is developed, it would be insanity to produce more. Even the dormant nuclear sites themselves are nuclear waste that would have to be disposed ofтАж at government expense. The nuclear industry wants government money to build more nuclear sites even though they havenтАЩt got a way to deal with the old sites that are no longer safe to use.
What is a far-left gun nut? You mean Marxist/Leninists?
Capitalism is not just the reason climate change is destroying our planet.it is also the reason we wonтАЩt be able to stop global warming. No matter how man times I virtuously clean out a peanut putter jar for recycling, I am not going to affect global warming one little bit. My footprint is too small and recycling is a distraction. Most recycling is too expensive so it quietly ends up in a landfill somewhere. ItтАЩs busy work to keep us from panicking.
I hate capitalism, too but IтАЩm not the far left. I donтАЩt know who you mean by the тАЬfar leftтАЭ. Is there any far left public figure or organization or movement you can name?
Nuclear waste is a problem that stops the argument in favour of nuclear energy in its tracks. Using a controlled nuclear reaction as a substitute for oil and gas just substitutes the pollution of nuclear waste for carbon pollution. Until there is a secure way to manage nuclear waste with a half life of 125,000 years, we are just leaving the disposal/storage problem for our grandchildren. We canтАЩt secure nuclear waste for 100 years, let alone 125,00.
The nuclear industry was stopped back in the seventies because of the nuclear waste problem. They have bided their time, waiting for the people who convinced the world not to go nuclear to die. Most of them haveтАж so hereтАЩs the nuclear industry trying again. It was an insoluble problem then and it is an insoluble problem now. The planet already has an existential threat on its hands. We donтАЩt need to resurrect another.
Have you ever heard of Hellen Caldicott? For that matter, construction costs are still too high. Nuclear waste is being тАЬstoredтАЭ on site against the wishes of the surrounding communities who were promised in the seventies that it was only temporary. The nuclear industry agrees that storage on site is temporary, although it has been there for decades in some instances. Industry is searching for abandoned mines to be deep geological storage. Every community that is a proposed site is against it. By the way, nuclear officials give the time needed for nuclear waste not to be a hazard is 400,000 years.
Who can guarantee safe storage for 400,000 years? Or even half life at 125,000 years? No one. ThatтАЩs the problem. No one wants to live next to nuclear waste.the nuclear waste we already have is stored at multiple former nuclear reactors now and people living there want it gone. But no place wants to accept it.
There is no place to put nuclear waste. Until such a place and a safe storage method is developed, it would be insanity to produce more. Even the dormant nuclear sites themselves are nuclear waste that would have to be disposed ofтАж at government expense. The nuclear industry wants government money to build more nuclear sites even though they havenтАЩt got a way to deal with the old sites that are no longer safe to use.