I think this so called documentary is asking the following question:
How do you want the human race to die and go extinct?
And their answer is death by Nuclear power is better than dying from hurricanes, cyclones, Typhoons (like today in the Philippines). And all the other problems that can only get worse through time.
Are they right?
I think it is only choosing to die from radiation over dying from Storms and winds above 100 mph worldwide and flooding and droughts.
And I think it is disingenuous because everyone already knows that for the next 300 years (no matter what we do) the bad weather is going to increase and increase and increase even if we stopped burning all fossil fuels on earth tomorrow and changed over to Nuclear power plants. So, even convincing enough people to go with nuclear power is an impossible task especially with Chernobyl and now Fukushima in the world's human memories.
My point of view is this: You are not going to get farmers to stop burning the slash in their fields worldwide. You are not going to stop people burning forests to make farms worldwide. You are not going to stop people from burning fossil fuels including oil and gas.
What is more likely going to happen is that as the population of earth gets to be about 1/2 of what it is now by being decimated by Cyclones, Typhoons, Hurricanes, tornadoes etc. people are going to start to change and realize that if they don't make some changes that everyone is eventually going to die.
However, nuclear radiation can't be seen. It can't be heard. It cannot even be checked if it exists unless you have a working geiger counter with a working battery. So, what happens if we lose technology? Do we lose the rest of the human race to radiation when they eat it by accident? Or more correctly when they grow food in contaminated radiated soil or with contaminated radiated water?
Radiation from Chernobyl and Fukushima will go on once released with technology or without it. If technology stops and radiation persists it could be the extinction of our race on earth just as certain as global climate change. This is something to think about too.
If people were actually serious about nuclear power they would be sending all nuclear waste into outer space. Until they do I can't take them seriously. Because there is no safe place ever on earth for spent nuclear fuel. And this isn't likely to change.
Especially with the ongoing nightmare of Fukushima that can never be fixed even with robots for a variety of reasons. Also, Chernobyl will have to be covered over with layer after layer of cement for thousands and thousands of years so the radiation doesn't release into the environment all over the earth in the air, water and land.
Incidents like Chernobyl and Fukushima have NO permanent fixes for 20,000 to 50,000 years or more. If we lose technology through a war or cataclysm everyone near each of these places will die a slow and painful death for 20,000 to 50,000 years or more into the future whether they know what a geiger counter is or not.
By the way if you want a geiger counter here are some of them right here:
And here is what a Geiger Counter does:
Geiger counter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geiger_counter
A Geiger–Müller counter, also called a Geiger counter, is a type of particle detector that measures ionizing radiation. It detects the emission of nuclear radiation ...
Geiger–Müller tube - Hans Geiger - Dosimeter - Scintillation counter
note: By the way after thinking about it during the night I realized even sending nuclear waste into space isn't a good idea. Because even if you put it in orbit eventually the orbit decays and it falls to earth through the atmosphere. If you send it out past the orbit it falls into the moon or Mars or Venus or Mercury or even Earth eventually (over thousands of years). The only safe place for Nuclear Waste would be if we sent it into the sun and I don't think people are going to want to spend that kind of money getting rid of it at least yet.
Because the sun is like 1,000,000 hydrogen bombs going off every second of every day and night continuously or more.
note: By the way after thinking about it during the night I realized even sending nuclear waste into space isn't a good idea. Because even if you put it in orbit eventually the orbit decays and it falls to earth through the atmosphere. If you send it out past the orbit it falls into the moon or Mars or Venus or Mercury or even Earth eventually (over thousands of years). The only safe place for Nuclear Waste would be if we sent it into the sun and I don't think people are going to want to spend that kind of money getting rid of it at least yet.
Because the sun is like 1,000,000 hydrogen bombs going off every second of every day and night continuously or more.
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