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From the article: > And here’s a little story. I grew up within a few miles of Britain’s first, and largest, nuclear power plant.
by wiredfool 7y ago
From the article:
> And here’s a little story. I grew up within a few miles of Britain’s first, and largest, nuclear power plant.
- pmoriarty 7y agoHe'd probably be telling a different story had he grown up a few miles from Chernobyl or Fukushima.
- lucb1e 7y agoRight, and after you've been in a plane crash you are likely to develop a fear of flying.
- jay_kyburz 7y agoI'm scared of the planes emission. Hope we'll soon tax jet fuel usage appropriately.
- lucb1e 7y agoDifferent issue, but yes, I very much hope so too. There aren't any good alternatives for long haul flights so I shouldn't judge people for doing them for work or visiting family (even if we should avoid them for holidays), but that doesn't mean we shouldn't collect money for projects like compensating the emissions, literally pulling it back out of the air (Climeworks), developing alternatives, or something else I can't think of right now. And for short haul we need to push people to trains (or in the USA, to create proper trains).
- wiredfool 7y agoAt the risk of violating site guidelines, Fukushima was mentioned in the article as well. I understand that you’re against nuke power because of the scary problems, but reading the article first and responding to the points raised is a better approach then the same old same old repetition.
- flukus 7y agoI doubt it, it seems there's enough cognitive dissonance that he'd be happy living next to Chernobyl, the station he grew up next to leaks like a sieve: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sellafield#Incidents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sellafield#Incidents