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Many people may reconsider and make changes to their environmental concerns, but they’re not likely to abandon them.
To what extent have you considered that concerns about energy and concerns about the ‘environment’ are inextricably linked ?
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If I’m not mistaken, some people involved with issues such as Climate Change and Peak Oil have concluded that the adverse affects of energy constraints outweigh the risks of nuclear power.
I’ll admit that, at least to some degree, people’s positions— including my own— sometimes stem from acting as if the human condition doesn’t involve trade-offs. As for nuclear energy, I myself don’t have a firm position on that. And policy makers don’t seem to be waiting for me to decide on the matter.
But as someone who relates to ‘deep ecology’, I’m fairly certain our environmental and energy problems require us to reconsider many of our assumptions about ‘progress,’ as we go about weighing the pros and cons of the trade-offs we as a society will likely be making in our lifetimes and beyond.
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