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What's Getting Cut From Science Part of the Federal Budget
Kristina at Science News writes "As part of the announcement of its proposed fiscal year 2010 budget, the Obama administration released a summary (called 'Terminations, Reductions, and Savings: Budget of the US Government, Fiscal Year 2010') that includes which science-related programs are getting cut. Two big programs are the nuclear waste storage project at Yucca Mountain in Nevada and a second prototype airborne laser missile-defense weapon." Update: 05/07 23:03 GMT by T : On the other hand, reader Dusty writes, "The NASA budget for 2010 has been announced, up
5% on 2009. Human space flight plans to be reviewed."
> he "Fault" in Yucca is a joke.
Of course. But the goal is to make nuke plants impractical and any excuse will serve. Because if we were to build a crapload of the newer safe plants we would have plenty of energy, build enough and somebody would find a way to store it in vehicles. But none of that is green. The whole point of green is creating an Age of Less.
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> It's true that neo-puritans have glommed on to the environmental movement since the early '70's
> to the extent that they have dominated it until recently, but there are some actual green voices
> out there, clamouring to be heard amidst the neo-puritan lies.
You go right on believing that like a good little useful idiot. The so called environmental movement has been and still is dominated by Communists. Or do you think it coincidence that the first Earth Day happened to also be Lenin's 100th Birthday? They weren't afraid anybody would make that connection publicly because they owned the media then as fully as they do now.
I know it has to suck to be a true believer in a cause that has been hijacked by a movement with a totally different goal but wake up and smell the coffee, we don't get the world we want, we all get this crappy one that is lousy with communists. Yes some enviros simply hate all industry, some hate h. sapiens. But they don't matter any more than you do when the green movement is planning it's next big PR stunt. It is all just another front to push the same tired ideas. Their proposed solutions at that first Earth Day to avert the coming Ice Age are exactly the same ones they push now to stop Global Warming^W^WClimate Change.
> The thing that should be stunningly obvious to everyone is: sacrifice is unsustainable. It requires more
> self-discipline than any large group of humans has ever managed, and in the absence of self-discipline it
> requires unsustainable (to say nothing of unethical) enforcement measures.
How many will rise up and revolt against the carbon tax? We conservatives will howl and bitch but we won't have the stones to start a revolution. No, they know how to boil frogs. It will all be quite sustainable... right up until our civilization collapses, which is the goal. They assume that at that point they can impose 100% pure Socialism on a broken and scared populace. And they might be right. If they can maintain control of the mass media they will probably pull it off.
> The neo-puritans are in particular trouble right now because green tech has reached industrial
> viability--wind farms, solar farms, biodiesel, etc. are all becoming viable industries, and in opposing
> them neo-puritans necessarily reveal that they don't love the environment, they hate industry.
Bah, none of those green technologies are currently viable if the government subsidies went away. Nukes are viable IN SPITE of the best efforts of the government to regulate it into impracticality. And more importantly, none of the alternatives will provide enough energy without deployment on a scale that would offend even my limited green sensibilities. Do we cover several states in endless ranks of solar collectors and windmills? There isn't enough farmland to grow both food and enough biofuels to power our current economy and I want the economy to grow, now shrink.
Give us unlimited cheap electricity and somebody will solve the storage problem and then we say goodbye to fossil fuel. You want to stop using the stuff to save the environment, I want to stop using it because it is funding our enemies and must eventually become scarce. So why can't we agree that the only way to save the world (and civilization) is to defeat the so called environmentalists and seize the power of the atom!
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