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13. Current "thinking" is that we can charge all future generations for the external cost...
Sat Oct 26, 2019, 12:00 AM
Oct 2019

...of a destroyed atmosphere.

That's not actually "thinking." That's contempt.

What's wrong with it is obvious: We lack a shred of decency.

Look who we've put in the White House: A self absorbed fool with no concern for any human being now or forever.

When we don't build nuclear plants it is because we are all that guy. The payback for a nuclear plant, given modern technology and design, will last for 80 years, Our problem with it is is that other people rather than we ourselves will reap the reward of this expense.

A destroyed atmosphere will last forever or what may as well be forever.

That's my "thinking."

I have done whatever I can to change current "thinking,"by merely stating what is obvious.

If you are asking me how can we change it, I don't know. To quote Shakespeare, "What's done, cannot be undone." He put these lines in the mouth of a murderer.

We have murdered the future, because we think nuclear plants are "too expensive" and 7 million deaths per year, not even addressing climate changes, is "cheap."

We thought our toys, electric cars and rocket ships being only small examples, were more important that the entire future of humanity.

Personally my life is more or less over, and I am decidedly resigned to the shame with which my generation will be regarded by history. The only consolation left for me is I have taught my sons everything I could teach them, as much as I fear for their times.


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