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It’s not a simple calculation when people in Japan are still debating what the final cost of the Fukushima disaster will eventually add up to. To do a simple c
by akamaka 7y ago
It’s not a simple calculation when people in Japan are still debating what the final cost of the Fukushima disaster will eventually add up to.
To do a simple calculation, you need to know the real costs of things, and right now those are unbounded.
“Think tank puts cost to address nuke disaster up to 81 trillion yen”
http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201903100044.html http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201903100044.html
- ovi256 7y agoHis point is that coal costs are just as high, if not higher, but we prefer not to think about them that way because it makes us uncomfortable. Just have your pick of examples of this thinking among the comments containing "uncomfortable".
- reacweb 7y agoI think the $2.4 trillion of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_cost_of_the_Iraq_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_cost_of_the_Iraq_War is more trustworthy.