Day after day we are bombarded by pleas to cut our reliance on fossil fuels to avoid a catastrophic change in the global climate. The ice caps will melt and sea levels will rise, we’re warned. Indigenous species will die as the temperature become too hot to sustain them and ecosystems will break down.
Of course, it’s easy to blame the world’s ills on car owners alone, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t play our part in stemming the tide of global destruction, even though we’re not the only culprits.
Flicking a light switch at home does not produce the same visible evidence, but travel to where the electricity is produced and you’ll find then chimney and the exhaust. Nuclear power tends to be cleaner, chucking out less pollutant and being more energy efficient. But there is the drawback that highly concentrated levels of radioactivity can be deeply unpleasant.
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