Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ubc-cs.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsri!ubc-vision!ubc-cs!morrison From: morrison@ubc-cs.UUCP (Rick Morrison) Newsgroups: can.politics Subject: Re: The Safest Way Message-ID: <9@ubc-cs.UUCP> Date: Tue, 17-Sep-85 14:37:42 EDT Article-I.D.: ubc-cs.9 Posted: Tue Sep 17 14:37:42 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 17-Sep-85 15:46:39 EDT References: <1386@utcsri.UUCP> <5952@utzoo.UUCP> <820@water.UUCP> <793@lsuc.UUCP> <5960@utzoo.UUCP> <4@ubc-cs.UUCP> <2194@mnetor.UUCP> Reply-To: morrison@ubc-cs.UUCP (Rick Morrison) Organization: UBC Department of Computer Science, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Lines: 35 Summary: It has been said in this forum that: >The combustion of Coal (mainly for the generation of power) in the >States kills 30,000 people. Where on earth did this come from, AECL brochures? >Rather than stopping one source of power >that we *know* to be safer than what we have now, Of course, we don't *know*, and the unfortunate *fact* is that we may not know until *long lasting* damage is done - something that cannot be said of coal combustion. We can clean up coal combustion now. >why not find out the *facts* about the situation... I couldn't agree more. In the mean time, I find the attitude of pro-nukes, which might uncharitably be characterized as "if you can't see it, don't worry about it" a bit naive. Similar statements apply to nuclear paranoids, although their paranoia is perhaps well founded in view of our unpleasant experience with the chemical industries in the past. Given our current understanding of the effects of introducing highly toxic radioactive wastes into the ecosystem, which in our less than perfect world *is* a certainty, this debate can be little more than an argument of ignorance. To dive whole hog into nuclear power or any ill-understood technology is the height of folly. ------------------------------------------------------------------- LONG LIVE DAVID SUZUKI AND THE CBC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!