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Furthermore, the totality of all nuclear accidents in the world has caused less deaths than coal soot alone. This is where the current environmentalist movemen
by ewjordan 16y ago
Furthermore, the totality of all nuclear accidents in the world has caused less deaths than coal soot alone.
This is where the current environmentalist movement has really failed: "Don't burn shit, it's bad for the environment and it's bad for us" was a compelling story, because it's pretty obviously true and hard to fight back against. When environmentalism was all about smog, coal burning, and all that nasty stuff, it was hard to find much fault with it.
But now it's all about carbon. And global warming involves a lot more analysis to evaluate, to the point that even the most scientifically minded non-experts can't claim to fully understand the evidence for or against it (if they even have access to that raw evidence), not to mention all the possibilities of fudged data, which turn this more into a guessing game about who's telling the truth than a matter of science.
- rue 16y agoThe (mostly) factual world is a tough place to live in. No convenient simplistic arguments that everyone can understand, for starters.