[pvaldes]

> CO2 is the most dangerous waste

> the CO2 produced by Chinese coal-fired plants eventually makes its way to me

Not. It doesn't work like that. CO2 is not even waste in the strict sense of the term; is basic for our survival. If you wipe all CO2 from the air, humankind will go extinct in a hurry because all plants would die really fast. All what we eat started as a CO2 molecule being captured by a plant somewhere.

The problem to recycle or clean it from the air has been solved for us by plants millions of years ago. Plants love CO2 and clean it for free.

Therefore, in the real life, many CO2 produced by Chinese coal-fired plants will be soon captured by a weed or a tree. The rest will go to the atmosphere where will hang on, maybe for a long time, but far away from you.

If you touch or inhale radiactive waste you could die in literally seconds. If you encounter CO2, as long that there is also enough oxygen around, nothing will happen. You will inhale it, will readily enter in your bloodstream, do a couple of roller coaster trips and will be discarded. All of we do it, many times a day for our entire life, without noticeable damage in our body.

And we could say that CO2 is a signifiant danger for the climate, but again, there are much worse molecules in this sense. Methane for example.

[acidburnNSA]

2 soda cans are produced by a US citizen getting 100% of their primary energy from nuclear fuel in a full lifetime. It's toxic but it's tiny. It's very VERY reasonable to bury it in deep crystalline bedrock and be done with it. That's a reasonable technical solution to a legitimate problem.

The problem of global warming from CO2 emission is much harder than nuclear waste, even if we increased nuclear generate 100-fold.

[mikestew]

And we could say that CO2 is a signifiant danger for the climate

Uhh, that’s exactly what I was saying. Maybe too subtle? I wasn’t suggesting that we’d choke on it.

there are much worse molecules in this sense.

And therefore CO2 shouldn’t be a concern? Where are you going with this?

[pvaldes]

> And therefore CO2 shouldn’t be a concern?

And therefore CO2 is not topping the list of worse waste created by man over radioactive waste, as you claimed previously...

Is not logical to keep denying that radioactivity is a very, very dangerous stuff at this point. After the Hiroshima, Chernobyl and Fukushima experiences we should expect to start talking seriously about it, instead to deny the problem again and again.

[mikestew]

as you claimed previously...

No, that was you making up quotes I never actually typed. Right now, concentrations of CO2 affect my life more than nuclear waste ever has and likely ever will. Since you’re content to make up quotes and then argue against them, I’m gonna chalk you up for a loss on this one and go about my day.