{"id":445,"date":"2012-10-28T08:06:54","date_gmt":"2012-10-28T08:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/?p=445"},"modified":"2012-10-28T08:07:56","modified_gmt":"2012-10-28T08:07:56","slug":"a-little-long-term-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/?p=445","title":{"rendered":"A Little Long Term Thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"

Problems Solved.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I keep hearing people being very pessimistic about our future
\nprospects due to climate change,
\nand yet there are still many things which we can all do in order to
\nstop this ecological disaster from completely destroying us all.<\/p>\n

Yet it\u2019s not so long ago that we all faced other ecological
\nproblems which are no longer with us.<\/p>\n

– We no longer have cadmium used in plastic toys.<\/p>\n

– Tin soldiers are a thing of the past.<\/p>\n

– A \u2018Pea Souper\u2019 is now just an historical expression.<\/p>\n

– Drums of low lever nukiller waste are no longer dumped in to the Atlantic.<\/p>\n

– We no longer build our homes with cancer causing asbestos.<\/p>\n

– There is now an international ban on the use of\u00a0 PCBs
\n[ polychlorinated biphenyl ].<\/p>\n

&<\/p>\n

– We no longer discharge untreated sewage in to many rivers throughout the world.<\/p>\n

Problems Still To Be Solved.<\/strong><\/p>\n

That\u2019s a good record so far, but we still have a lot more to do.<\/p>\n

Though the task list might be a short one it could we a while
\nbefore we complete these tasks: –<\/p>\n

– Reafforestation.<\/p>\n

– Stopping over population.<\/p>\n

– No longer using climate changing fuels.<\/p>\n

&<\/p>\n

– Closing\u00a0 down the Nukiller power industry.<\/p>\n

Yet it is the longer term which we really do need to be thinking about.<\/p>\n

Starting with the decades and still working on the same issues for centuries to come.<\/strong><\/p>\n

One of the major problems with Nukiller power is that it takes
\nmany decades to decommission these plants.<\/p>\n

The current and future problem being that it will take between
\n100 & 120 years before all the existing fuel rods are cool enough
\nto move. That\u2019s not my line, but what we have been told by those
\nwho run these plants.<\/p>\n

Then all the highly radioactive & chemically complex waste will
\nneed to be stored: –<\/p>\n

– Not just centuries, but many thousands of years to come.<\/p>\n

So far there have been many ideas put forward about how to deal with this waste,
\nbut no realistic solutions are in sight.<\/p>\n

27013<\/strong><\/p>\n

If dealing with this waste was ever to be added to the electricity
\nfuel bill which we all pay for,
\nthen it would equate to a life after life mortgage for many many
\ngenerations to come.<\/p>\n

It would be like asking the average taxpayer to contribute to the
\nbuilding of the Great Wall of China, the Pyramids, Stone Henge,
\nWells Cathedral, and for that debt to continue until the year 27013.<\/p>\n

The year 27013 being based upon the half life of plutonium,
\nbut of course it will still be very dangerous for a lot longer than that.<\/p>\n

Now this is were the really scary issue kicks in.<\/p>\n

Most current anti-nukiller campaigning centres around stopping new plants being built,
\nand the current ones closed down.<\/p>\n

Yet that is just the start of our long term problems.<\/p>\n

We need to be thinking and campaigning upon just what will happen to these plants in the long term.<\/p>\n

That is why we will need to all think about a 120 year anti-nukiller campaigning strategy,
\nand we need to do it now.<\/p>\n

Though there are still a lot more nukiller \u2018accidents\u2019 waiting to happen.<\/p>\n

While we still have the continuing disasters at Chernobyl and Fukushima to resolve.<\/p>\n

There are very few people who are capable of doing any long term thinking,
\nnever mind thinking in to centuries to come,
\nyet that is just what we all need to start doing right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Problems Solved. I keep hearing people being very pessimistic about our future prospects due to climate change, and yet there are still many things which we can all do in order to stop this ecological disaster from completely destroying us all. Yet it\u2019s not so long ago that we all faced other ecological problems which … Continue reading A Little Long Term Thinking<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}