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- From: louis@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca (Louis Schmittroth)
- Newsgroups: sci.environment
- Subject: Re: soapbox preaching
- Message-ID: <rwa.724529066@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca>
- Date: 16 Dec 92 18:04:26 GMT
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- assmus@rocky1 (Bayne Assmus) writes:
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- >Why do so many "so-called" environmentalists preach against
- >nuclear energy, an industry with a low fatality history (yes,
- >we know about Chernobyl, a tragedy, but the only real source
- >of fatalities in the industry) when thousands of miners a year
- >in the United States alone die of black lung disease (an average
- >of 4000 deaths/yr during the seventies). These deaths occur in
- >a modernized country with safety regulations. How many deaths
- >occur in less developed countries that heavily rely on coal power
- >(and we can't deny them the rights to cheap energy that has given us
- >the standards of living we've enjoyed and abused)!
-
- Well, I'm a "so-called" environmentalist, and I think nuclear energy
- has a place in the world. Not as a panacea, but part of an overall
- strategy. I know many environmentalists who are of the same mind.
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- In response to one of John McCarthy's posting in which he ranted and
- raved quite irrationally agains Stephen Schneider, I read the book,
- Global Warming. In it he comes out as favouring nuclear energy in
- combintaion with other tecnolgies -- wind, solar, and natural gas.
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- But the impact has to be assessed all the way from the mining of ore
- to the end disposal. Unfortunately the nuclear industry has shot itself
- in the foot with all their hype.
- --
- Louis Schmittroth louis@cs.athabascau.ca
- NW 1/4 18 67 21 W4 Alberta.
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