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There have been about 2,000 nuclear explosions in world history, plus dozens of meltdowns, innumerable leaks, etc. How about the lives that weren't lost as a r
by sevenless 10y ago
There have been about 2,000 nuclear explosions in world history, plus dozens of meltdowns, innumerable leaks, etc.
How about the lives that weren't lost as a result of
(1) nuclear deterrence preventing wars between great powers
(2) nuclear power competing with coal and preventing deaths from air pollution/coal mining/global warming
though?
> human life and ecosystem stability
You're going to have to pick one of those.
- lostlogin 10y agoHumans are always more scared of things they can't see. Things like toxic gas and the mythology that built up in mining communities, cursed area/tombs killing people (possibly there are good reasons to avoid these places like biological disease presence). Religion and gods and and allthat carry on - you can't see them but they can hurt you. Radiation, particularly ionising, is somewhere in that collection of hard to understand things. Being able to detect a danger with your own senses is very reassuring.
- PhasmaFelis 10y agoWho are you arguing with? Fixermark said nothing about nuclear power, and said that the conventional ordnance of WWI was worse than the atomic bombs of WWII, in the long term. You're defending something no one was attacking.