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13. It's not a false choice.

The way it works now solar and wind have a codependent relationship with gas.

Solar and wind will not replace fossil fuels or nuclear. The only way to quit fossil fuels or nuclear is to quit fossil fuels and nuclear. An economy powered by solar and wind looks nothing like the economy we enjoy now.

I've said it before here. Anyone can quit, today. Walk out to your main breaker and flip the switch. Turn off the gas. (Or quit paying your bills...)

Then what? Own the problem. Don't wait around for big business or big government to do it. They won't.

My own personal environmental strategy is to boycott near everything, which is pretty easy because I don't have much in the way of "discretionary income."

Whatever death Fukushima causes will be lost in the statistics and will not be comparable to either the tsunami itself, the non-radioactive toxins spilled by the tsunami, and the permanent damage done to the environment by replacement fossil fuels.

I happen to believe we need to move beyond modern fossil-fuel dependent industrial society. Nuclear power won't be the reason this civilization collapses, whether it's expanded or abandoned.

It's the fossil fuels and the high speed transportation culture of cars and airlines and "economic productivity" that's killing us.