...consideration of future generations.
It is really, really, really, really difficult to get this ethical consideration to even enter into the conversation. We hear, for instance, from nominally intelligent people who are still yet complete assholes, that nuclear energy is "too expensive," as if climate change isn't "too expensive." These same types, perhaps not intellectual morons but certainly moral morals, are in a mad rush to consume everything left to consume in terms of the best remaining ores and materials, not to mention vast land and sea areas, for a short term industrialization and development scam - so called "renewable energy" - while patting themselves on the back and declaring themselves "environmentalists."
I note that here in New Jersey, the "League of Conservation Voters" is actually the "League of Development Pushers," who for reasons I can't understand feel the need to send me emails all the time to tell me how I should tear the shit out of New Jersey's benthic ecosystem for wind turbines that will do nothing more than to assure our dependence on dangerous natural gas. Every wind turbine built in this State will be landfill less than 20 years after its construction, with the bill coming due and falling on today's toddlers.
It is rare to see anyone who recognizes this, and so thank you for noting it.
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