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On Tue, 10/21/14, Evyn MacDude <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [TML] Fusion by 2025?
 To: xxxxxx@simplelists.com
 Date: Tuesday, October 21, 2014, 2:02 PM

 On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at
 11:43 AM, Phil Pugliese (via tml list)
 <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
 wrote:

 But really is this place to
 argue about fringe local politics? (Left
 and
 Right politics are all fringe politics now. As neither side
 has a
 opinion that they can back up with
 reason)

 Though if you want
 to get a Anti-Nuke green going asked them about the
 waste by product of universal solar cells on
 buildings. (Hint the
 toxics pass the current
 American static radioactive waste stockpiles
 numbers fairly quickly). This was a common
 topic of discussion with
 one of my
 professors while we were working on a Urban Transit
 planning
 study.

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Well let's see if I can tie it into the 3I & let's use your example above.
(Doesn't it seem like it damn near *impossible* to produce *anything* hi-tech w/o toxic waste?)

I can see advocates for both sides producing 'studies' etc. that, of course will support their positions.
Neither side really trusts the other so what's needed is a truly impartial 3rd-party.
One that both sides trust.
That's something that seems to be in really short supply these days & it could be one of the most important functions of the 3I & other culturally heterogenous polities.
(Naturally this wouldn't apply to folks like the Hivers & Centaurs. They would have their owns ways of dealing w/ such controversies)
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