Investing in advanced technologies creates far more money than is spent. Queen Isabella and Spain reaped untold fortunes from her investment into Columbus’ journeys. All mankind has continued to benefit from the scientific and technological knowledge gained from the six Moon landings. Why does anyone in their right mind believe that scrimping and saving our energy is a ‘long term’ solution?Read the rest right now.
If we look at nuclear power as our first step to becoming a space-faring species (I mean, we’re not going to get to Mars using hydro-electric-power, are we?), then to me the idea of spending time and money on developing and building wind farms seems ludicrous. Almost as ridiculous as someone in the 19th Century saying that we shouldn’t develop steam engines for industry and should instead make more efficient water wheels. Actually, not ‘almost’, it’s more ridiculous than that because we have the advantage of hindsight, we can see very clearly that, throughout history, taking the ‘Science’ route has advanced civilisation time and time again. And that believing in power, beauty or perfection of ‘Nature’, that ‘Nature’ knows best, has only ever hindered our development.
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