Global warming '“ what about radiation?
As said, it will only increase Co2 emissions due to increased traffic and everything else that comes with mass housing developments.
But the government isn't listening, as we know.
They go on about carbon emissions, yet we are still cutting down rainforests which absorb Co2, as do the trees which are felled to build more and more houses.
But what about radiation, which no one ever mentions?
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Hide AdThat alone has probably increased global warming more than any Co2 has.
Back in the 1960s and earlier, Russia, America, the UK and France regularly detonated massive nuclear bombs '“ what for?
Man's futile obsession with being mightier than the next one?
Radiation is heat and my theory is that much of this has warmed and still is warming our atmosphere '“ it doesn't just go away.
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Hide AdAll the super powers suddenly stopped the tests and I wonder why.
The earth sits on tectonic plates, which we must have damaged, hence our freak weather and disasters.
No, we don't want Eco-Towns, what we want is to develop parks and forests and save ourselves, because our government won't.
David Thomas, Oakcroft Gardens, Littlehampton
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