Comments Posted By CCG
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CONSERVATIVES CANNOT IGNORE CLIMATE CHANGE
I think you are absolutely right to mention nuclear power, which rarely if ever gets a mention in the whole global warming debate: it's cheap, abundant, and produces no significant greenhouse gas emissions. The only real long-term problem with it seems to be the generation of (solid) radioactive waste, which takes hundreds of years to decay, but even there the total amount produced by each plant is about 10 sq. ft./year - about 25 tons. (By contrast, the USA produces 630,000 tons of trash every DAY - and it takes up a lot more space per ton, too).
Environmentalists seem to have an instinctive distrust of nuclear power, but by opposing it they are taking off the table what's maybe the only possible way to make a big dent in greenhouse gas emissions (not to mention industrial toxins, etc). Conservatives just need to be able to make the case for it.
Comment Posted By CCG On 19.11.2007 @ 10:46
