Is how do we warn the future people. More than likely at some point in time we'll off ourselves for the most part and the survivors 100's, 1000's of years from now may not have a clue as to what radiation is or what it can do to the body. If I understand it correctly it can alter genes and if thats the case no telling what will be set in motion by our not well thought out use of nuclear energy.
Our problem is one of excesses more than anything or that is what has fueled where we find ourselves today with GW. If mans experiment with burning fossil fuels raises our temperature where no one or few survive the world will be able to rebound from that without any toxic waste laying around. After say 10,000 or so years this world we know today will not be recognizable so yes it is possible that some of this nuclear waste as it is stored today will be strewn about. How do we make that right in our heart of hearts to leave something like this to future generations. We have fossils depicting a world inhabited by completely different creatures so from that I can come to the conclusion that things have happened before that pretty much wiped out the living then same as probably will happen again. We owe it to the future inhabitants to not leave toxic waste laying around, something that more than likely they'll have no knowledge of the dangers it poses.
For a handful of dollars today some are willing to do exactly what I'm saying and it is wrong! IMHO
Maybe man won't destroy himself and if he does then that will be great but we'd better take a turn now pretty soon or we're screwn. We don't just have to use nuclear or fossil fuels, there is alternates. I'm willing to change the way I live to adapt to the
possibility of the less availability of electricity or fossil fuels as we make this transition to alternates and more efficiency.
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