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[-] Noite_Etion@lemmy.world 97 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

When our living conditions deteriorate gradually, we adapt to these conditions instead of fixing of them. But sudden threats get sorted out immediately.

Coal has done far more damage than nuclear energy ever will, but coal has over 2300 stations worldwide and nuclear has 400.

A perfect example of the 'Boiling Frog Syndrome'.

[-] madcaesar@lemmy.world 41 points 6 months ago

I read somewhere that the boiling frog thing is total bullshit. They'll totally jump out once the water gets too hot.

[-] Meron35@lemmy.world 56 points 6 months ago

The frogs only stayed in the water because Friedrich Goltz lobotomized the frogs beforehand. Which makes it a perfect metaphor because the Murdoch media has definitely lobotomized the public.

[-] spujb@lemmy.cafe 9 points 6 months ago

in this case the boiling frogs can’t jump out except for the ones with the top 1% of the cash in the pot so,

still applies i think

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[-] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 63 points 6 months ago

rich bastards claiming that windmills would harm them through visual pollution.

you fucking fuckwits, smog is visual pollution. But they don't care.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 21 points 6 months ago

you fucking fuckwits, smog is visual pollution.

I'm old enough to remember people losing their shit at China over the 2008 Beijing Olympics drowning in a toxic cloud. The international outcry was such that the state spent a decade cleaning all that shit up (which produced its own wave of "Has Chinese Eco-fascism Gone Woke?!" screamer articles in turn).

But their rate of pollution has been falling steadily for the last two decades, in no small part because the state wasn't fighting an uphill battle against corporate slobs in white doctor's coats trying to tell everyone that smog wasn't happening/was good aktuly.

Meanwhile, US expenditures on lobbying, denialism, and greenwashing stretch into the billions of dollars annually. And its not hard to understand why, when the ROI is $7T/year on the international stage.

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[-] fatalError@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 6 months ago

Windmills are a whole lot better than burning coal, but aren't perfect. Recyling the blades after their 20 year lifespan is a nightmare.

[-] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 31 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

nothing is perfect. we need imperfect things that don't emit co2. windmills have many detractors but at the moment represent mostly co2-free power if we're willing to take it. and recycling industries for solar and wind are coming, they'll never be perfect either, but when the waste stream becomes lucrative enough they'll find a way.

[-] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago

but when the waste stream becomes lucrative enough they'll find a way.

The problem with capitalism in a nutshell.

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[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 7 points 6 months ago

I doubt it's any worse than the other mountains of waste we produce. I'd wager it'd barely even register.

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[-] someguy3@lemmy.ca 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Smog is like vaccines. People don't see the smog/disease anymore, so they think they don't need the protections/vaccines.

[-] spujb@lemmy.cafe 35 points 6 months ago

inb4 comment section full of uncited factoids and personal attacks

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[-] spujb@lemmy.cafe 19 points 6 months ago

dont need a citation for that one :)

[-] 4am@lemm.ee 15 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Ha ha your mom suck me good and hard through my jorts

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 31 points 6 months ago

I have a Prius. Not for any stupid "I'm saving the planet despite still driving an ICE car" reasons, because I save a lot on gas.

Doesn't stop every "rollin' coal" asshole from doing it when they drive by me because "haw haw dumb librul hippie." You sure showed me by spending a lot more on gas than I do.

[-] yamapikariya@lemmyfi.com 12 points 6 months ago

Man I recently got a 2010 Prius off an auction. Very cheap purchase and it works great already getting savings on gas. But I did notice people have the urge to want to pass or take over when I'm in it even though I'm definitely going fast enough. Funny enough it doesn't happen when I'm in my Miata going the same speed.

[-] ZMoney@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago

Literally children who want big loud vroom vroom trucks with lots of chrome.

[-] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 6 months ago

my favorite fun fact is that one time that one 16 year tried to roll coal on bicyclists, and then just ran them over and killed them.

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[-] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

ok real talk. 3 mile island reportedly had no result on the environment, on account of being fully contained. Chernobyl was significant, obviously.

Fukushima as far as we can tell today, has no significant long lasting effects. Notably i've read that rates of certain cancers in areas surrounding the plant did rise, but i've also heard that it was still below the nominal expected rate. So nothing of significant concern. The local sea life near to the plant could very well be an issue, but we don't really have much data on that at the moment. Especially now that they've started releasing tritiated water into the ocean for the next 20-50 years or whatever the fuck the plan is supposed to be.

Nuclear energy fucks around sometimes.

[-] fellowmortal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

certain cancers in areas surrounding the plant did rise

just a note to add that if you start checking the population for something routinely like thyroid cancer... the rate that you find it goes up. This is why the detected cancer rate increasing is not considered a cause for alarm.

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[-] woelkchen@lemmy.world 24 points 6 months ago

He's back to promote nuclear energy and insult everyone who disagrees!

[-] TseseJuer@lemmy.world 15 points 6 months ago

those are some smooth pits

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[-] fireweed@lemmy.world 19 points 6 months ago
[-] Forester@yiffit.net 33 points 6 months ago

Unfortunately, due to budget constraints, the editor has been fired and replaced with a stoned dog.

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[-] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 6 months ago

You still can't safely eat mushrooms in parts of Germany that got contaminated by Chernobyl.

[-] realitista@lemm.ee 14 points 6 months ago

Yet even accounting for all of that, including Chernobyl and Fukushima, nuclear is still 1000x safer than coal and as safe as wind and solar.

[-] someguy3@lemmy.ca 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Bbbeeee aaaafffffrrrraaaiiiiiddddddddddddd!1!!1!!!1!!!!1!!1!!!!!1!!!

C'mon. Chernobyl was like a drunk driver bypassing the blow device, and now you want to ban all cars everywhere for everyone and everything for eternity. Just to replace it with horses that kill even more people.

[-] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 6 months ago

When I misuse a coal plant, it breaks down and potentially pollutes the vicinity. When I misuse a photovoltaic plant, it might get damaged. If I misuse a nuclear plant, an area becomes uninhabitable for centuries.

But accidents are not the main concern, when there are currently nuclear power plants being held hostage in an ongoing war

[-] realitista@lemm.ee 13 points 6 months ago
[-] someguy3@lemmy.ca 12 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

See you're treating all nuclear plants and operation of those plants as the same. It's not. Just like car designs are not the same as they were in 1950, nuclear plant designs are not the same as they were in the 1950s.

You know Chernobyl was because they threw the operating procedure out the window right? But you want to act as if that's just the normal operating procedure. And that it could just happen just because, just from normal operating or something. It's insane.

So you think the US, UK, France, Germany, etc etc etc nuclear plants will be taken hostage by Russians? See you're on your fear campaign once again. Beee aaafffrraaaaiiiiddd!1!11!! That's all it is.

*Have to correct "misuse coal". It's not misuse, it's use. Using coal guarantees polluting both locally and the entire planet.

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