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To: nihil who wrote (47046)	7/25/1999 2:45:00 PM
From: Krowbar	Respond to of 108807

nihil, thanks for the great summary from the point of view of an economist. Somehow at feelies we always seem to get really educated input from somebody who knows a lot about a subject. One area that I disagree with though is this... << Nuclear and fusion research should be continued but only introduced when environmental problems were clear enough to require action to reduce CO2 emissions. >> The problem is that there is a real possibility that once CO2 is recognized as a problem it may be too late to do anything about it. Not enough is known about it at this point, but I think that it would be very wise to learn as much as we can. The consequences of a runaway greenhouse effect would be the certain death of all surface life on Earth. I don't think that could be achieved if we exploded all of the nuclear weapons on Earth on the same day, unless of course we started massive fires that would then lead to runaway greenhouse. The surface of Venus, with a high concentration of CO2 is over 700K. That is a fact. Not very hospitable for life. Del