Coal versus Nuclear

[hunter]

13. Um, why was the coal mined?

If you don't like that, how about the Kingston Fossil Plant coal fly ash slurry spill?



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingston_Fossil_Plant_coal_fly_ash_slurry_spill

1.1 billion gallons of toxic, carcinogenic, sludge spilled...

And overall, the things like arsenic, mercury, and yes, even radioactive waste emitted by the fossil fuel power industry; coal, oil, and so-called "natural" gas. There's nothing natural about it.

But that's the trivial shit.

It's the carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that will destroy this civilization, and are already destroying the earth's natural environment as we know it, most especially the oceans.

Nuclear power plant accidents are trivial in comparison, in fact Chernobyl and Fukushima have proven that people are far more damaging to the natural environment than nuclear waste. Nature flourishes when all the people are removed from a place, even if the place is more radioactive than we humans are willing to tolerate.

The same can't be said for places contaminated by coal waste, or torn apart by strip mining.

I'm not an advocate of nuclear power, I'm a Luddite. I believe what we now call "economic productivity" is a direct measure of the damage we are doing to the earth's environment and our own human spirit.