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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: longnshort who wrote (6199)	4/7/2006 10:22:18 AM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36917

Nuclear as a long term solution has some problems. Number one is that nuclear waste is the most insidious pollution I am aware of. Would you want your grandchildren to have that glow? You might want them to have a healthy glow, but you might not want them to have a nuclear glow. Let the French show us what kind of drastic mutations they can sprout. Until someone can provide evidence to the contrary I will believe that wind power comes without environmental pollution other than a little manufacturing and decommissioning waste and the fact it is not entirely attractive. We have starving artists; they could take on windmills as an art form. Make the ugly beautiful. China is being pragmatic, individual solar water heaters are a hot item in China. Why don't we do more on that front? If you think about it long enough, you will realize that the concept of extracting all of the resources from our planet and using them to support a couple centuries’ civilization is neither prudent nor fair. The sooner we shift to sustainable energy generation, the better stewards we will be. In the longer term, we can get a lot of resources from asteroids and other space bodies. This requires extending our civilization beyond the cradle of mankind that earth has been.