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Old 11-30-2012, 01:17 PM
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Originally Posted by piece-itpete View Post
I'm curious - how exactly do we fix those wonderful things?

A successful society will always overconsume, my take. Our power plants are pretty clean, but there's a great deal of opposition to nuke power (largely the left, 'no nukes')...

Then of course there's the rest of the world.

Pete
Simple issues such as reusable beverage containers for beer, soft drinks and bottled water have been solved and have been fully accepted/implemented in Europe for decades, but are a complete non-starter here, mostly due to the political influence of the throwaway beverage container industry.
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