That’s not even green! If you shut down nuclear and go back to fossil fuels, that’s worse!
Like, there’s some pretty spicy debates in environmental science on whether nuclear is better or worse than renewables (there are many arguments that it’s better, for example, solar panels and batteries require a ton of harmful reagents to manufacture, way more than the volume of nuclear waste being produced) and whether we should be building new reactors or investing in all renewables, or whether existing ones should be shut down once renewables have replaced everything else, but everyone agrees that it’s way better than fossil fuels and between nuclear and gas, nuclear is better.
Don’t worry about the science, Germans just know intuitively that nuclear is very dangerous! A lot of Germans still need to go to therapy to deal with their trauma over Chernobyl. They’re convinced that there’s other ways and that nuclear energy is a deal with the devil.
That’s not even green! If you shut down nuclear and go back to fossil fuels, that’s worse!
Like, there’s some pretty spicy debates in environmental science on whether nuclear is better or worse than renewables (there are many arguments that it’s better, for example, solar panels and batteries require a ton of harmful reagents to manufacture, way more than the volume of nuclear waste being produced) and whether we should be building new reactors or investing in all renewables, or whether existing ones should be shut down once renewables have replaced everything else, but everyone agrees that it’s way better than fossil fuels and between nuclear and gas, nuclear is better.
Don’t worry about the science, Germans just know intuitively that nuclear is very dangerous! A lot of Germans still need to go to therapy to deal with their trauma over Chernobyl. They’re convinced that there’s other ways and that nuclear energy is a deal with the devil.