Posted by James K on February 1, 2006, at 17:23:50
In reply to Re: okay so maybe i'm missing something..., posted by alexandra_k on February 1, 2006, at 16:49:43
Maybe the us should have patented nuclear weapons, then we could go after violaters in World Trade Court or something. I think Pakistan, Isreal, India, China, and whatever is left of USSR already have them. The cat is kind of out of the bag. I remember years ago some college kid wrote how to build one for a paper or something and caused a big stir. I don't know. The world seems to be moving on without the USA but we haven't noticed yet.
Stopping nuclear arms proliferation is an admirable goal, but USA always seems to have an everyone else first attitude.
Energy and how to get it and who gets it is going to be one of the biggest problems in coming years. Many of our drilling platforms in the Gulf are going to be underwater or blown away. Venezuala and Bolivia are talking about keeping their own resources. China and India are developing needs that current production wont be able to keep up with. Nuclear power creates waste. Sometimes we go to a lot of trouble to try and store that waste on top of fault lines. Wind power decimates migratory birds which control the insects which destroy the crops causing increased pesticide use which washes into the gulf where it mixes with the petroleum production waste and creates dead zones where fish can't live forcing the fishermen to overfish the healthy areas and putting more toxins into the human food supply.
The solution, if we find one will be about money. Convincing governments, businessmen, and individuals that life can be more prosperous with greener power usage, safer production techniques, living citizens etc.
Where was I again?
James K
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