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Food is cheap enough we throw away a ton of it and energy could scale significantly further quite easily if there weren't an anti-science political barrier to n
by hueving 8y ago
Food is cheap enough we throw away a ton of it and energy could scale significantly further quite easily if there weren't an anti-science political barrier to nuclear.
- txru 8y agoIt should be fun telling the Japanese government that shutting down all of their nuclear plants in the last few years is 'anti-science'.
- isostatic 8y agoWhy are they shutting them down?
- newnewpdro 8y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disaster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disa...
- grkvlt 8y agoSo, not for science based reasons then.
- isostatic 8y ago1 death? Why aren’t they stopping driving which causes nearer one death an hour than one death per 50 years
- newnewpdro 8y agoI think you need to step back and look at the bigger picture of how this disaster has impacted Japan. Reducing this crisis, which is ongoing, to "1 death" demonstrates a profound lack of empathy and understanding of what this nation has had to deal with because of these reactors.
- kazinator 8y agoAlso, the Wikipedia article that is cited as the source for "1 death" contains the following quote: A survey by the newspaper Mainichi Shimbun computed that of some 300,000 people who evacuated the area, approximately 1,600 deaths related to the evacuation conditions, such as living in temporary housing and hospital closures, had occurred as of August 2013, a number comparable to the 1,599 deaths directly caused by the earthquake and tsunami in the Fukushima Prefecture in 2011.
- isostatic 8y agoSo tsunamis are bad. I get that. Nuclear power did not cause the earthquake or tsunami.
- newnewpdro 8y agoEarthquakes and tsunamis happen. The nuclear reactors in Japan substantially exacerbated their negative consequences for the entire nation.
- coldtea 8y ago>if there weren't an anti-science political barrier to nuclear. Plus the totally scientific, but not so glamorous and cavalier, concern for storage safety and other externalities. With several tons of barrels of waste just dumped in the sea (and even the best guarded ones just an accident away, e.g. during transport), one would have thought we'd have rethought this "let's use the most dangerous materials and waste possible to create energy, what could possibly go wrong".