• @[email protected]
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    89 months ago

    We are on a time limit thanks to climate change. We can’t afford to complain about picking the lessor of two evils.

    • @[email protected]
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      -79 months ago

      The option proposed is that making a small area of the planet inhabitable or worsening climate change. Sorry but that’s a shitty comparison.

      • @[email protected]
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        59 months ago

        No. The original comment said the “worst disaster made a very small she’s of the planet uninhabitable”. Keep in mind this disaster was the result of Soviet incompetence and completely avoidable with standards implemented in the US.

        They’re saying our “worst case scenario” using nuclear power is better than worst case scenario continuing to use fossil fuels.

        Likelihood of worse case scenario using nuclear power is also extremely low. Whereas worst case scenario (billions of people dying) for continuing to use fossil fuels is EXTREMELY HIGH.

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        9 months ago

        Bet you’d feel* differently if you were a resident of one of the island nations that’s going to drown in the next decade or two. That part of the world’s definitely going to be uninhabitable if we continue to do nothing.

        • @[email protected]
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          09 months ago

          So installing a nuclear reactor in my province where we have ample hydro electric power options would save that island?

          It’s like you are yell at everyone saying nuclear power or die. There are lots of options to clean reliable energy. In some cases nuclear will be the best option but not always.

          • Norah - She/They
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            18 months ago

            You called me suspicious so here I am fulfilling that expectation. Here’s a fucking great video on why dams, and therefore hydro power, are dangerous and ecologically damaging. The only point I was trying to make is that your argument against nuclear, that it might cause an area of land to become uninhabitable, is flawed. Dams always make an area of land uninhabitable.

            https://youtu.be/AL57dSIXqBM

          • Norah - She/They
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            9 months ago

            I’m not that pro-nuclear. You just made a shitty comparison ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

            Edit: Also if you think hydro is the solution, again, more uninhabitable land. Dams are their own ecological disaster.