Reply #32: I suppose

[motocicleta]

I just smell the inherent arrogance of humanity all over this nuclear push: we feel that we need it, so we'll do it even though we have to work out the kinks later. We've done this before, it's just that this time we can see that there are issues we'll deal with later. If humans could somehow instantiate the Precautionary Principle under any circumstances, we wouldn't be in the mess we are now.

That arrogant human tendency makes me think we will go ahead and build a ton of nukes, then have some as yet unknown climate feedback loop change our doomsday scenarios to not so bad, and THEN we'll have a big fucking nuclear accident. Or six. That would fit right in with the history of mankind so far.

At some point, I'd like to see our species work out the kinks in advance.