Re: Are nukes the answer to global warming?

From: G. R. L. Cowan (gcowan_at_eagle.ca)
Date: 02/06/05 

Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2005 10:35:13 -0500

Alex Terrell wrote:
>
> G. R. L. Cowan wrote:
> > Alex Terrell wrote:
> > >
> > > So what is? Return everyone to subsistence farming and cut
> population
> > > to 500 million?
> > >
> > > Otherwise, how do you propose to reduce CO2 by 50% whilst enabling
> a
> > > quadrupling of the World's wealth.
> > >
> > > Look at it logically, and like it or hate it, its hard not to see
> > > nuclear as part of the solution. Of course, that's too big an
> emotional
> > > change for most environmental groups.
> >
> > Obviously, then, most "environmental" groups aren't.
>
> Agreed there
>
> > If you live off public money, they're your friends;
> > they want you to have that extra 30 cents in fossi fuel tax
> > no matter how many unimportant lives it costs.
> >
> Disagree there, as far as Us is concerned. US Gasoline is underpriced -
> raise the tax, and use the proceeds to cut other taxes on low income
> groups. I don't think that would cost any lives ...

Then perhaps you haven't understood.
Fossil fuel use entails a routine drumbeat of fatal accidents --
http://tinyurl.com/eyli --
and taxes on fossil fuels bring in a certain number of
millions of dollars per fatality.
This calls, has called, into being a species of
"grassroots" fossil fuel tax lobbyists.
Anything that reduces the death toll is,
to the extent it also reduces the tax take,
anathema to them. Where it is concerned,
they are fatality lobbyists.

--- Graham Cowan, former hydrogen fan
http://www.eagle.ca/~gcowan/Paper_for_11th_CHC.html --
how individual mobility gains nuclear cachet

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