Reply #7: As an advocate of nuclear power, I must disagree. [View All]

[NNadir]

One of the things I worry about in the second nuclear age is creating the impression that energy can be used indiscriminately. It cannot be nor should it be. Nuclear energy is an excellent form of energy but it is not without risks.

Neither is the issue of the environment is limited merely to global climate change. There are other issues including chemical pollution, habitat destruction, salinity of agricultural land, depletion of water, the integrity of the water, that are intimately involved with population.

Six billion people, especially six billion people with decent lifestyles, is not environmentally acceptable. The climate change issue may be the most exigent environmental issue, but it is not the only environmental issue connected with the earth's carrying capacity for human beings, which is clearly exceeded. The task is to find an ethical way to reduce the population.