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Better Living Through Nukes?
perkonis writes "So, you've got 23,000 nukes laying about and no one to use them on. What to do with them? Well, you blow up stuff for fun and profit. Some of the ideas range from good on paper (such as mining oil shale) to just downright bad (such as making a new Panama Canal). Making a big ditch by blowing up nukes — what could possibly go wrong?"
This is one of the dumbest, most henious and dangerous ideas I have ever heard. Every time a nuke is detonated, the result is a dispersion of radioactive material into the environment. The environmental impact of this can be considerably negative. Oil shale mining has already been criticised in altering the hydrography of the environment and erosional and water flow patterns, perhaps causing a permenant change in wildlife habitation patterns and so on for many years to come. We do not need to make this any faster or more destructive than it already is given the amount of damage that is occuring the earths surface and alteration of its landscape, biogeography and so on. This idea belongs in the waste bin where it belongs with other bad, dangerous, ideas which show little concern or sensitivity for the environment and fail to recognise the effect of ecosystem loss, destruction of natural environments and ecosystems, and scenic quality of our planet, things which are of inestimable value. We need to recognise the intrinsic value in the earths environment and scenic beauty as is rather than looking at everything as something to exploit for profit for material greed. We can eat foods grown in the soil but we cant eat cars or oil shale, or food off land polluted by such. Oil shale will be depleted in a few decades anyway but the environmental damage would be permenant, it should not be developed at all. When we destroy or alter the earths landscapes we are stealing the environmental legacy from future generation, an example are people displaced by mines or by dam projects who have lost their homes, land to which they were entitled which were stolen from them. Not enough intrinsic value is placed on the value of the land and environments as is and the people who live in balance on them, and too much on destructive or non sustainable activities that permenantly alter and destroy natural environments, or cause damage and alteration to the earths surface.
The rights of a native people who fish in a river and live off the land in a sustianable way with little impact on it, is more importnat than that of dams and other projects that would destroy the ecosystem which they have lived off of
Pity its logic is flawed...
As long as some people just want to watch the world burn.
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
dieing
And YOU SHOULD be the first in line for spelling class.