Reply #11: Really? [View All]

I never heard of them.

With all of the environmental activism here, one would think I would hear about these bombs all the time. Many people here have an energy critiria that says if even in theory, a technology has a potential war use, it must be banned.

Thus I am surprised that there haven't been any calls from "environmentalists" here calling for the banning of dangerous fossil fuels because of "Daisy Cutters" and MOABs.


Maybe people couldn't care less, I don't know.

I do know that the largest bombings in history, bombings killing hundreds of thousands of people in a single night, involved dangerous fossil fuels.

The international outrage over Dresden, Hamburg, Tokyo, has led to many calls for dangerous fossil fuel bans I would suppose, although one hardly hears of them.

My main reason for calling for dangerous fossil fuels is the environmental cost of dumping dangerous fossil fuel waste but I have been concerned about dangerous fossil fuel war, especially wars caused by dangerous fossil fuels, including the war between two prominent Pacific nations between 1941 (Dec 7) and 1945 (Sept 1.) Many millions of people died in that particular dangerous fossil fuel war, which (as a minor side point) was also a nuclear war, the only nuclear war.

I also object to dangerous fossil fuels because of dangerous fossil fuel accidents, which kill fairly regularly. For instance, people just cant stop talking about the Piper Alpha One disaster - familiar to all citizens on earth - in which a dangerous fossil fuel platform in the North Sea exploded killing 187 people, or the Skida natural gas explosion (20 dead), or the Texas City refinery explosion (15 dead) or...

Many dangerous fossil fuel electricity generating stations produce very expensive electricity, not quite as expensive as solar electricity, but definitely "up there." The exception would be dangerous coal, which - because one can dump dangerous fossil fuel waste without restriction or charge - is roughly priced the same as its only competitor, the competitor being required by law to keep all of its used fuel on site.