anti nuclear greens make me very upset
Like.
You dont want coal, ok good im with you.
You dont want pipelines, also good im there.
And you also dont want nuclear? Like if you dont want nuclear, your getting a pipeline thats just how it works.
Your solar farm needs a gas peaker plant and that means a pipeline.
Your own activism ensures the pipeline. Stop that.
@Laurelai Exactly .
The fact that oil money funds anti-nuke groups is well known.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kensilverstein/2016/07/13/are-fossil-fuel-interests-bankrolling-the-anti-nuclear-energy-movement/#21b5aa6f7453
I get that nuclear energy is scary but compared to the alternatives its a good option in the near/mid term, and it kills less people too. https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2011/apr/04/fear-nuclear-power-fukushima-risks
@crystalsopen @Laurelai If you read much about the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, the largest Superfund site in the country, you may change your mind. Major radioactive and other environmental mess.
@svenhayden @crystalsopen That was for nuclear weapons production. Which is bad. Why do anti nuclear electricity people always conflate bombs with power??
@Laurelai @svenhayden I agree that weapons plants seem to have more problems. And I don't think nuclear power is perfect, but it's the best of all the realistic options in the near term. Decreasing energy supply, is politically impossible and would hurt poor people the most. As shortages always do. Massive reductions in power consumption would be needed to go to 100% renewable, and there really still needs to be an always on back-up.
