Fixed it for you.

The full-stream costs are never, ever assessed up front, so things appear in the short term to be much cheaper than they are long term, and Americans can’t even muster enough intellectual horsepower to conclude that the solution isn’t the Rapture, let alone understand the deferred costs of their choices today.

Thinking cuts into their NASCAR watching time, and far too many are so intellectually lazy they have ceded any time remaining to trusting their authority figures to think for them.

So here’s the devil’s bargain: which will it be, death by radiation or death by drought, famine, rising ocean levels, and storms?

The unfortunate reality is we can’t make enough energy from wind and solar fast enough to meet our needs, and there’s no way corporate America is going to restrain itself from using as much energy as they think they need to make money. So it’ll be “clean coal” and oil and tar sands and fracking for the rest of our lives, and the climate will suffer for it.

I don’t like it one bit, but that’s the reality we face.

There are plenty of reasons to follow Japan’s lead — they learned the hard way. But I don’t find this angle compelling, sorry. But a good thing to think about! Bump for that!