Published Tuesday, February 26, 2008 at 10:16
by
frederic.vareillas 
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Dear friends,
I would like to share two other readings with you so as we're able to think Europe's near future through:
First: There's a very interesting issue of "L'Ecologiste" #24; Oct-Dec 2007 (French version of the original "The Ecologist", London, UK) about the biofuel hoax and slowing our cars' speed.
Also look at the present issue of "The Ecologist": "The end of food as we know it" (London, 2008). You should also have a look at the website: www.theecologist.org – it’s interesting (English and French versions available).
Second: A French essay by Eric Orsenna and Le Cercle des Economistes: "Un monde de ressources rares" (2008, paperback, French only). They offer some economical and political ways to deal with scarcity.
Your friend,
Frederic (Paris)
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1. reading recommendations by zentrist
on Tuesday, February 26, 2008 at 10:59
Dear Frederic, thanx again for your reading recommendations. However, wouldn't it be more efficient to summarise the arguments of these books and articles, rather than saying: Go, read those books I read and you will be enlightened?
As for the nuclear option: I heard it all before. In the old days of the Soviet Union, my communist friends always argued that a socialist power plant is safer than the capitalist ones, because its technology is not corrupted by profit interest. Now it is French/Swedish/German/Bulgarian technology, which is supposedly safer than the rest. Even if this were all true, what if we see a 9/11 scenario with a nuclear power station? And I am really interested to learn more about the waste solution Lovelock offers. So, please do not hide behind books, but start to argue.
2. Let's go by frederic.vareillas
on Tuesday, February 26, 2008 at 18:53
Okay,
I 'll try and explain :
- There are many other elements beside uranium to operate a nuclear plant : They are already doing it in India despite all US efforts to stop them.
-In France we retreat and reprocess our nuclear waste so that we can use it AGAIN.
-The rest is buried deep down in rocky soil (that's much safer than so-called carbon "capture"). 7 GRAMS per inhabitant.
-I have visited two nuclear plants and lived for years near uranium mines : Never been ill.
- A 9/ 11 scenario is simply impossible on a nuclear plant : they're all concrete, double protected and surrounded by army jets, aircraft fighters
(by the way, why didn't they intervene with their F16 in America ? Did you see HOW the towers fell ? Do you know how fragile the twin towers were (to SAVE MONEY) ? Who trained and armed Bin Laden and co ?).
- It would take 40 years to develop reliable wind turbines and efficient solar cells throughout Europe : We have maximum 10 years to forsake Oil and Coal.
-I assure you Chernobyl was poorly built and poorly operated (sorry for the poor firemen).
When and If we survive this transitory period in Europe (2010-2030) then it will be time to count on the Sun, the wind and perhaps (Iter, Cadarache) sunlike nuclear FUSION (no waste, infinite energy) if it works.
Then and only then, we'll give up our old nuclear fission plants, with relief.
The electricity post industrial civilization will have survived in Europe.
Let's sort out our garbage, recycle our waste, re-use plastics, give up individual cars, eat vegetables and chicken. (Cows and Pigs emit a lot of Methane, and methane is 21 times more dangerous than CO2 to our atmosphere already warmed up)
The future is in our hands.
Have I forgotten something ?
See ? : I don't hide behind books.
Yours truly,
Frederic
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