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Re: Ecological Economics and Entropy



On Thu, 12 Dec 1996 01:19:13 EDT, Toby Reiter <str4552@OBERLIN.EDU>
wrote:


>Actually, I just entered this thread. No the world is not going to get 
>better until people start realizing that our world will not be killed in 
>an instant but in a century or two. Humans, in general, are too 
>short-sighted to sense long term suicide. 

And yet,... you then go on to in fact sense just such a suicide. Do
you always falsify your arguments in this way to save others time?


>> Or at least would be -- were it not that we entrust their disposal to
>> a bunch of extremely caeful and expert people.
>
>Even the best experts in the world can't overcome the fact that nuclear 
>fission should never have occurred within the biosphere. Sure nuclear 
>energy is good for some things, like sunlight, but genuine radioactive 
>uranium really doesn't have much place outside of the ground.

On what basis should it never have occurred?


Brian Carnell
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