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Aug 7Liked by Albert Bates

I am frequently reminded of The Natural Steps first principle: Don't take things from underground and spread them around willy-nilly on the earth's surface. We are being stupid. We know better, yet we do it anyway because, well, money, profit, and a false sense of "the good life". Nuclear in the end is more dangerous than fossil fuels, so I cannot comprehend Bill Gates idiocy on this. Thanks for the reminder. (An aside, and excellent book on the topic of removing material from the earth is "Material World" by Ed Convey. It does not include nuclear material, but it is quite thorough on sand (silicon), salt, iron, copper, fossil fuels and lithium.)

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Should have written Ed Conway - sorry.

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