New2view's Blog   Life on The Blue Marble

After just watching updated nuclear reactor developments that produce little or no waste as proposed by MIT brains and such, it does appear there are definite positive high energy production advantages with these newer developments, no doubt.

That said, my question is simple; why pursue development of such high energy production methods that will likely always carry very have high human risk factors?

No matter how such risks may be minimized, why is it necessary? Does it not make far more planetary sense to strive for greater harmony with nature by making it the primary goal to ‘eliminate’ all risks in order to preserve a pristine natural environment as much as we are humanly capable?!

Clearly the mentality persists that ‘more is somehow better’. That pursuit of material goods and services are somehow in mankind’s best interest. Hasn’t earth’s environmental  and human damage proven that philosophy is a fallacy? I would argue that is has.