Back in the 1890s scientists discovered some rocks were extra spicy and the energy inside could power everything, everywhere, forever. The last 100+ years have been a concerted effort all across the globe to ignore that in favor of invasive and destructive drilling, clouds of smog in our cities and massive spills of toxic black sludge for our seafood to swim in. We are not a wise species.
The green party in Germany is still happy that they finally managed to get the last nuclear reactors offline. In April 2023. Imagine fighting something for 50 years and never adjusting your world view at all despite the masses of new data or “new” issues.
I find it fascinating that we’re all here on lemmy to be part of a more distributed social media since monopolies obviously come with serious consequences.
And then there are still tons of people who’d prefer nuclear, which usually means some big company having a lot of power on a basic need for society, as if there it suddenly does make sense to want huge companies have all the power.
Regardless of whether nuclear is safe or not, or if the waste is a problem or not, the entire reason you’re on lemmy and not on reddit should be the same reason why you’d prefer solar & wind over nuclear.
You are making a LOT of really bad assumptions on why people are on Lemmy and why some think Nuclear energy has a place in the entry supply chains for at least the next several hundred years ( unless the current paradigm changes radically).
Back in the 1890s scientists discovered some rocks were extra spicy and the energy inside could power everything, everywhere, forever. The last 100+ years have been a concerted effort all across the globe to ignore that in favor of invasive and destructive drilling, clouds of smog in our cities and massive spills of toxic black sludge for our seafood to swim in. We are not a wise species.
Fermi paradox in action
The green party in Germany is still happy that they finally managed to get the last nuclear reactors offline. In April 2023. Imagine fighting something for 50 years and never adjusting your world view at all despite the masses of new data or “new” issues.
Nuclear in Germany was phased out by the Conservativs under Merkel. Whining about the Greens here is disingenuous.
But the entire Green party was founded out of the anti-nuclear movement, so saying they are happy about it is certainly correct.
I said they are still happy about it. Is that correct or not?
I find it fascinating that we’re all here on lemmy to be part of a more distributed social media since monopolies obviously come with serious consequences.
And then there are still tons of people who’d prefer nuclear, which usually means some big company having a lot of power on a basic need for society, as if there it suddenly does make sense to want huge companies have all the power.
Regardless of whether nuclear is safe or not, or if the waste is a problem or not, the entire reason you’re on lemmy and not on reddit should be the same reason why you’d prefer solar & wind over nuclear.
Uhhh what? Why couldn’t nuclear energy be government funded and owned?
naah, places like France and China don’t exist.
You are making a LOT of really bad assumptions on why people are on Lemmy and why some think Nuclear energy has a place in the entry supply chains for at least the next several hundred years ( unless the current paradigm changes radically).