Every industrial scale power generation technology has an environmental impact. I've been saying this for years, and people don't get it because they don't realize the scale of what's required to replace existing technologies.
If there was a greater understanding of this fact, then we could potentially make better choices between universally imperfect technologies.
If there was a greater understanding of this fact, then we could potentially make better choices between universally imperfect technologies.
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That's an excellent point. It isn't like the sane among us are willing to turn back the clock -- we want to improve our environment, but we aren't willing to kill all the humans to return to a pre-Anthropocene period, and even if we did kill all the humans you can't put that genie back in the bottle, the world is already changed.
It seems much more mature to, instead of thinking of what genocide we can commit to undo human existence, we figure out the best ways to be better stewards in a world we have changed and will likely change more in the future.
There are a lot of species that thrive in partnership or cohabitation of environments with humans, and we could maybe do some things differently to increase the number that can thrive in the environments we create.
It seems much more mature to, instead of thinking of what genocide we can commit to undo human existence, we figure out the best ways to be better stewards in a world we have changed and will likely change more in the future.
There are a lot of species that thrive in partnership or cohabitation of environments with humans, and we could maybe do some things differently to increase the number that can thrive in the environments we create.