I absolutely agree - but again, that is not my main point. My point is that problems such as radioactive waste, etc. are surely solvable, just as we have tackled other problems. If we ignore them, of course, they will get worse (or at least no better). They will require technological effort as well as the will to tackle them. I would suggest that for the nuclear industry, a good start would be a surcharge on power produced to fund this sort of research. It is a solvable problem - we just need to work on it.
Here's my take. We have no idea what is going to happen. We are entering into a situation that has never before been seen in the time scale of modern history. What we can see is that things that used to happen on a scale of 100s or 1000s of years are now happening over 10s of years or less. We have a lot of good theories on how weather and climate works, but since we are entering into unchartered territory there is no real way to test those theories or compare them to historical data. Basically its a crap shoot. In the best case, water levels rise a bit, we have to abandon some coastal cities/islands, but basically life goes on. In the worst case, we upset the delicate stability of the planets climate system and all hell breaks lose and threatens our ability to survive as a species. Nobody can prove which will happen until it happens, they can just speculate on odds. The question is, do we really want to role that die? Rob
