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Originally Posted by Azure
Manitoba generates the majority of its power from renewable sources and we pay less than most, so you can't exactly throw out the argument 'we have to pay more for power.' If Alberta and Canada in general invested in nuclear, power could be cheap and abundant.
Burden on developing nations? China emits more and more GHGs every year, while the US is apparently on the decline. What exactly is the Canadian government going to change that? How are we going to force China to focus more on their obvious problem and invest more in green electricity generation, since their coal plants are the biggest problem?
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I just mean if international standards are created and enforced. Kinda tying it into being able to buy 12 tube socks for 2 dollars. The only reason we can get them so cheap is because it's built with slave labour. Perhaps it's time for us to realize we don't have to have a new phone every 2 years or a new TV every 6, or eat so much meat or buy so many socks. Just take better care of the ones we have. We are in effect avoiding our responsibilities. So eventually the same thing might go for energy, the reason it is so cheap is because we are avoiding our environmental responsibilities right now.
As far as nuclear power goes, I think a lot of the realistic thinking environmentalists to believe this is a route that needs to be explored. It's mostly the alarmists and reactionary ones that want it completely gone. I do think there is a future for it. We need to build even better safe guards, and finally figure out what to do wit the waste, a problem that in the 50's they thought we'd have solved by now, but I think it should be part of the plan.