rachelmc wrote:Hi Cog. I generally agree now after doing more research, though there are some concerns. Many of the plants in operation are operating well beyond their expected and designed lifespan. They are well out of date in some cases.
Nuclear accidents are rare and the newest plant technology far safer. But when accidents do occur they are dramatic. Fossil fuels have killed and weakened far more humans and ecosystems than nuclear energy, but the death caused is slow, accumulating and not immediate..... there is no comparison. Fossil Fuels are far more dangerous.
Of course embracing conservation and powering down could exclude expanding nuclear. But this is a pipe dream, Kudzu Apes will go the whole mile with expending all the energy they can so we should just face this fact and re invigorate the nuclear industry.......
But we might not do that also..... there is another strategy that I think is embraced by those in power.
Exploit the resources of the middle class and poor. If I was an asshole rich elite person in power I would embrace a strategy to intentionally weaken the most egrigious consumers on the planet, the lower and middle classes.
It is the logical direction to follow as constraints increase.
Back to serfdom but with an internet connection acting as a digital opiate to make you compliant.
Patiently awaiting the pathogens. Our resiliency resembles an invasive weed. We are the Kudzu Ape
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