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Originally Posted by Azure
Lurch....if France gets 85% of their power from nuclear...which they do...its going to be easy to meet ANY standard. Especially one like Kyoto.
If North America was using 85% of their power from nuclear...our emissions would be a hell of a lot lower too. Therein lies the solution...sadly...people would rather guzzle more oil, even though it is a finite resource, than develop and USE newer, better and more efficient technology.
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But what is the environmental impact of nuclear waste? CO2 eventually gets absorbed by trees, the trees release oxygen into the air and use the carbon to build themselves up. The issue right now (assuming CO2 is the cause of global warming) is that we produce more CO2 than trees can use up.
Then, let's say that Global Warming ends up being caused by solar activity. Then what? Instead of producing what 22nd century people would consider harmless gas, we left them with a stockpile of nuclear waste that will have to just sit there for the next 1000 years.
This is why many of us are saying let's find out what's going on. Cut back, sure! Use wind, solar or hydro, perhaps. But to say nuclear is a better option; let's make sure we don't doom the planet by trying to save it.