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Wilms

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14. Really good points.
Fri Mar 28, 2014, 09:07 PM
Mar 2014

And a really important one you made was, "An economy powered by solar and wind looks nothing like the economy we enjoy now". Is it fair to say we probably can't have the kind of economy we have now without it being sustained by nuclear and fossil, each, ultimately, unsustainable activities. And that very economy creates all other kinds of non-radioactive toxins, as you point out, whether that process is powered by fossil or nuclear. I think it enables wealth concentration, as well.

It's the economy that would need to change. With current technology, what kind of economy might we have? Let's add tidal and geo-thermal to solar and wind, plus all the good conservation methods we already know.

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