• grandel@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    I hate the argument that nuclear is unsafe. Sure its unsafe, but how is killing the ocean with record temperatures caused by coal and other fossil fuels any safer?

    Greenhouse gases are polluting the air we breathe. Seems pretty unsafe to me to be emitting literal metric tons into the atmosphere for all of us to choke on.

    Because fuck logic.

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      8 months ago

      While that’s true, the counter arguments are Fukushima, Three Mile Island, and Chernobyl.

      The risk with nuclear is that we trade one problem–climate change caused by CO2 emissions–for another significant problem down the road.

      At the same time, climate change is here now, and we need to act or else there isn’t going to be anything we need to worry about in a century.