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Environment & Energy

CrispyQ

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1. No words.

Reply to SHRED (Original post)

Sat Jan 20, 2018, 02:42 PM

Jan 2018

And so, the billions of tons of silt that has accumulated in Lake Mead and Lake Powell serve as archives of sorts. They hold the sedimental records of an era during which people, health, land, and water were all sacrificed in order to obtain the raw material for weapons that are capable of destroying all of humanity.

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A 26,000-ton pile of radioactive waste lies under the waters and silt of Lake Powell [View all] SHRED Jan 2018 OP

No words. CrispyQ Jan 2018 #1

Oh please... NNadir Jan 2018 #2

I was with you for a while shanny Jan 2018 #3

Absolutely. VASTLY superior. NNadir Jan 2018 #5

Your premise only works if the sole alternative to nuclear is burning fossil fuels. shanny Jan 2018 #7

The suffering uranium miners in Western Colorado and Eastern Utah randr Jan 2018 #8

Do you have any idea of how many of these miners, subject of so many fetishes, there were? NNadir Jan 2018 #9

I commend you on your fervent stand against randr Jan 2018 #10

In my earnest opinion, a little demeaning is appropriate. NNadir Jan 2018 #11

The Glen Canyon Dam was an environmental disaster. hunter Jan 2018 #4

Is it too much to ask for clean air, food, and water? Irish_Dem Jan 2018 #6