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In reply to the discussion: Joe Romm: Why James Hansen Is Wrong About Nuclear Power [View all]kristopher
(29,798 posts)33. Any time there is trade there is a "consumer economy".
What you are objecting to is rooted in the rather clear set of ethics associated with "a culture of consumerism". Those ethics are not universal to the species and have only a very limited relationship to the requirement to provide goods and services bringing heath, comfort and culture to our kind. Your use of the term and the cause and effect relationships you've established around it demonstrates (what I think is) a poor understanding of the human systems you are judging.
I am, by inclination and much formal training, a cultural anthropologist and I recognize abnormal behavior when I see it.
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Then we pass like every other "innovative" exponentially growing population that has gone before us.
hunter
Jan 2016
#34
You claim I “have been an unambiguous promoter of nuclear power for years.”
OKIsItJustMe
Jan 2016
#18
Riiiight.... " Regulators question CO2 plan for $19.3 billion Virginia nuclear reactor"
kristopher
Jan 2016
#25
Since, at 440 reactors nuclear only supplied about 2% of global final energy supply...
kristopher
Jan 2016
#37