Could you give us a rough estimate of the cost of these three lessons, Monetary, Human and Environmental?Quote:
Originally Posted by Eevo
Could you assure us that all possible lessons have been learned and that no further stuff ups will occur?
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Could you give us a rough estimate of the cost of these three lessons, Monetary, Human and Environmental?Quote:
Originally Posted by Eevo
Could you assure us that all possible lessons have been learned and that no further stuff ups will occur?
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Originally Posted by cuppabillytea
in australia: cost has been zero.
can never assure you of that, for nuclear or any technology, inclusion existing.
Ask not for whom the Cash Register cachinks. It cachinks for thee.Quote:
Originally Posted by Eevo
I think its important as it differs betwwen countriesQuote:
Originally Posted by cuppabillytea
I've been pondering why you thought it important to say this:Quote:
Originally Posted by johntins
One is that "carbon" is a black particulate matter, and that CO2 is a colourless, odourless trace gas that is vital to life on this planet. So vital, in fact, that life as we know it could not exist without it. The two things, "carbon" and CO2 are completely different, yet you refuse to see or acknowledge that. Your posts continually demonstrate that you haven't taken this on board.
Obviously, I do know the difference between carbon and CO2, and I know some things about the role of CO2, although I don't claim to be an expert I also know that CO2 in the atmosphere has roughly doubled in the last two centuries and is one of the major causes of the rapid warming of the atmosphere. So, I'm curious about why you thought your comments were important. Would you mind explaining, please?
humans are carbon lifeforms
Yep, but we would have to burn an awful lot of humans to make much difference to the atmosphere, I think.Quote:
Originally Posted by Eevo
dont need to burn them to make a difference to the atmosphereQuote:
Originally Posted by DiscoMick
An interesting read here:
Carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere - Wikipedia
A couple of points that stand out to me:
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concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere have varied from as high as 7,000 parts per million (ppm) during the Cambrian period about 500 million years ago to as low as 180 ppm during the Quaternary glaciation of the last two million years
What we need to do is not only stop deforestationQuote:
The increase has been caused by human activities, particularly the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation.
Deforestation - Wikipediabut promote reforestation on a large scale. Let Australia be the lungs of the earth.Quote:
Madagascar has lost 90% of its eastern rainforests. As of 2007, less than 50% of Haiti's forests remained. Mexico, India, the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, Burma, Malaysia, Bangladesh, China, Sri Lanka, Laos, Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Liberia, Guinea, Ghana and the Ivory Coast, have lost large areas of their rainforest.
We should also be growing large forests for harvesting.
We could capture and store this carbon by building houses out of wood, not bricks and mortar.
We should move to a wood based economy. Build things out of wood.
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our energy should be sourced from wood
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and everything should be made from wood.
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Agree Mick.
Reforestation is actually going on over large parts of northern Oz and elsewhere without anyone planting a tree.
Just an outcome of the effect of land clearing that happened in the past for purposes that turned out to be 'fruitless'.
DL