Damned if we do, Damned if we don't

[Harleyman]

If you read my post correctly you will see that I'm not advocating 'culling' but rather putting up a solution, one that I certainly would not support and would go down fighting if the ruling rich do bring in. Although remember they would use their hired guns the army to do their dirty work and even though they have families etc. remember they are trained psychopathic, killing machines who's morals have been drilled out of their concience, so I doubt I'd be fighting too long.

 

Who are the "they" and on what basis and evidence do you support your theory that this might happen?

The army are not "trained psychopaths" either

[Cyclone]

Alternatively we could spend the untold billions that new nuclear stations will cost on enough renewable sources to wipe out any energy crisis forever and ever and ever. Wind, hydro, solar, biomass, tidal, geothermal. With a good spread of those and the development of hydrogen fuel cells were good to go.

 

And before someone claims it will all be paid for privately, it wont it wont it wont because these things will be too important to fail when the private investors decide they arne't making enough money. So the public will have to pay for it one way or another.

 

However badly damaged a windturbine is it won't render any part of the earth uninhabitable for a period of several hundred years.

 

Developing renewable power costs more to do and the resultant energy costs more to produce.

Windpower is practically useless as a primary source, what with the way it's not consistent, hydro electric can't provide anywhere near enough, geothermal isn't developed enough, the sun doesn't shine that often in the UK and tidal will do more environmental damage than nuclear.

[Rowan22]

I'll decide and I choose to start with the world's prison population, moving onto those on licence/tags when the prisons run out.

 

Or we could really do some good and start with people who suggest things like that.

[max]

All these idiots calling for the end of Nuclear Power Stations is all fine and everything but I really hope they've thought it through. Will they be happy with sustained black out periods, schools closing on regular bases during winter times, high fatality rates in hospital, food shrortages, mass unemployment, a near or complete collapse of the economy?

 

In reality we need more Nuclear Power Stations as it's the cheapest more efficient way of producing electricty and if the electric car is ever to take of in mass production it's the only way to go.

 

That's a nice reasoned way to start a debate.

 

Do you not think that the idiots are the ones who build a nuclear reactor using the lowest bid and then store the waste nearby just in case sometime in the future someone discovers a safe way of disposing of it?

[Cliff Clavin]

That's a nice reasoned way to start a debate.

 

 

It was actually an attempt at humouring the subject but on reflection I see your point.