Re: Are nukes the answer to global warming?

From: G. R. L. Cowan (gcowan_at_eagle.ca)
Date: 02/07/05

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    Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2005 23:31:19 -0500

    "G. R. L. Cowan" wrote:
    >
    > 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 for sure, http://tinyurl.com/x3l2

    > 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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