I have a question about nuclear weapons. Anyone here know much about them?

[villager]

68. Yes. And on discussion boards like this, they start with the OP.

Your either/or dichotomy, however, is a false one, beloved by the "green" nuclear lobby.

We can't simply build enough nuke plants to avoid any of the hard questions about consumption patterns, etc., that also fuel (pun?) the CO2 that you -- and I -- are justifiably alarmed about.

in other words, the nuke lobby sells a false bill of goods: That no hard choices lay ahead, no restructuring of society (oh and never mind the radiation in your ocean and your children!)

We can go on, they tell us, exactly as we have been, and it will all be perfectly safe.

Neither of those things is true.

But getting back to the OP, those nuke plants will be even less safe -- astonishingly -- if we disappear (as we seem hellbent on doing).