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No one cares about the jobber or the technician. People only care about themselves. A jobber falls off a roof, there is zero chance of the whole city being affe
by bilbo0s 8y ago
No one cares about the jobber or the technician. People only care about themselves. A jobber falls off a roof, there is zero chance of the whole city being affected. A technician slips up and there is radiation exposure, there is a NON-zero chance of the whole city being affected.
Same reason people protest the windmill, and the dam, but not the solar roof. The thinking is, "The solar roof doesn't ruin my view or change my waterfront."
When it comes to NIMBY's, the N is more about the M than it is about the B or the Y. That's one constant in infrastructure projects that never changes.
- dsfyu404ed 8y ago> A technician slips up and there is radiation exposure, there is a NON-zero chance of the whole city being affected. Long distance electric transmission is a fairly solved problem. We can put the nuclear plant downwind in BFE. It's even easier than pumping around liquid energy because the electrons move themselves. You don't hear people up in arms over the risk of catastrophe every time an oil tanker drives by. Why is nuclear any more special than an oil tanker off your coast?
- coldtea 8y agoBecause I can avoid problems with spilt oil by not getting into the sea near my coast. Not so much with a nearby nuclear disaster.
- godelski 8y agoBut the fear of nuclear is definitely higher than actual danger. It is something to be very cautious of, but in comparison to corner technologies it's fear to risk ratio is much higher