[environment] The Great Global Warming Swindle [politics] (445)

92 Name: Anonymous Scientist : 2007-03-31 19:46 ID:Heaven

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Only corporate types advocate nuclear power as clean. Definitely not the same type of oil, coal, gas, auto and manufacturing corporate advocates, who claim global warming is lies, along the lines of (a) "Hey it's cold today! That disproves global warming!", (b) "You don't know what the weather is tomorrow! You can't say you know anything" and (c) "Shucks, you're just all being negative Nancies. Think positive!" (These are to a degree strawmen, but the arguments themselves are fallacies.), though.

Very conveniently you ignore other clean sources of power. Although each does have minor to major problems of their own (major probably being large hydroelectric dam's environmental impracts, pollution from geothermal, and disposal of silicone sandwich plates for solar, minor being the problem of finding viable places to put electric windmills), other sources of clean energy can be managed, to reduce issues.

Also, stopping smoking does actually help reduce the problems caused by smoking up to the point where you've contracted serious terminal illness. You see, the thing is, you're analogy makes the assumption that we're already doomed and can do nothing about it, and that we should do the danse macabre (How's that for a gloomy, "DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!" attitude here), rather than the idea that it's possible to avert disaster; and that there's hope to change.

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