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121 comments on DrumBeat: March 31, 2007

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davebygolly on March 31, 2007 - 1:06pm

There is only one good way to put the nuclear genie back in the bottle: nuclear disarmament, starting at the top -- i.e. FIRST the US, Russia, China, and so on down the line, including Israel. With on-site inspections. Then you can reasonably ask wannabes to sign on -- and who can doubt they would? But why should they renounce nukes when they are threatened with invasion and destabilization, and possibley even getting nuked themselves?

The US is currently the ONLY power that is currently threatening the pre-emptive use of nukes against non-nuclear powers ("nothing is off the table").

The road we're on now, however, is almost certain to see the use of nukes, and it is almost certain that the US will directly or indirectly be behind unleashing them. Israel, for example, would not dare use them without foreknowledge of the US reaction.

I do not know much suffering and disaster it will take to get us to start thinking like a species that wants to survive.

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memmel on March 31, 2007 - 1:41pm

Understand that the consensus opinion is that peak oil is still several years away and further if this was true then the bidding war would being in earnest several years after that.

And we are already rattling the nuclear saber.

I happen to think we are close or passed peak but the problem is not this but the fact that the US and Iran are already willing to bring nuclear arms into the battle for oil.

Peak Oil itself can easily be the fuse that pushes countries to both eagerly seek nuclear weapons and cause countries to consider using or providing nuclear weapons in exchange for oil.

Its this mix of the real prize nuclear weapons with oil that is the wolf. In my opinion changing the way we live is far better than even allowing the chance that nuclear weapons and oil will become intertwined.