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[–] kyub@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (3 children)

That's the thing with the radioactive waste and it being still dangerous for many thousands of years... We humans manage to ruin the planet within a fraction of that time already. How could we ever manage anything correctly, let alone something that requires attention for tens of thousands of years. It's like the ultimate technical debt. A burden we can't handle, among many other problems we also can't handle. Collectively speaking.

[–] filcuk@lemmy.zip 8 points 5 hours ago

Engineering-wise we could manage, but no-one would be willing to spend more than anything considered 'good enough'.
It's like the old roman concrete question - it's not that we're worse at making concrete today, quite the opposite, but that we're working with maximum cost to value ratio.

[–] Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

Humanity's greatest fault it's it's lack of responsibility. Most of our issues trace back to that.