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End of Nuclear Power Generation
Burkingam:
If I want too be consistent I can't base an antinuclear speech based solely on the risk of a meltdown while promoting hydroelectric instead. After all, a dam has a chance of inducing seismicity which in turn can kill thousands as history has shown, or it can simply fail. Dam are possibly better targets than nuclear plant for terrorism or during war. Despite the general protection against flood they offer, dams are definitely not risk free.
Frankly we are fairly limited when it comes to energy source with lower risk to cause deaths than nuclear. I can't think of anything but wind and solar, both of which are intermittent and therefore require back-ups.
Freedom Kira:
Except wind turbines kill birds. So I wouldn't say they have "lower risk to cause deaths" per se, not to mention they are pretty bad for the environment in that respect.
pingryanime:
Sorry, but which one is more valuable, thousands of human lives or a few hundred stupid birds...
Meomix:
--- Quote from: pingryanime on June 19, 2011, 10:26:13 AM ---Sorry, but which one is more valuable, thousands of human lives or a few hundred stupid birds...
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Boggles the mind, while we're at it we should have made sharks extinct long time ago.
AceHigh:
--- Quote from: pingryanime on June 19, 2011, 10:26:13 AM ---Sorry, but which one is more valuable, thousands of human lives or a few hundred stupid birds...
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The fact that there are billions of humans on the planet, I would say that as a species a life of a few thousand is worth near nil. If anything, trimming down the human population should be a priority.
Besides it's not the few hundred birds which is the problem, but rather the fact that the entire species will leave that location in search for more habitable lands. When stuff like that happens, the balance in ecosystem is disrupted. That would be the problem, not a few hundred birds themselves.
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