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Wish these billionaires with good intentions would invest in marketing to revamp public nuclear sentiment. There’s clearly the possibility of progress given how
by ianai 7y ago
Wish these billionaires with good intentions would invest in marketing to revamp public nuclear sentiment. There’s clearly the possibility of progress given how effective other political campaigns are.
- wallace_f 7y agoIf most billionaires are optimizing for social image / good will, your idea makes no sense to most of those people.
- roenxi 7y agoOn inspection, if they are optimising for social image / good will then a marketing campaign is the obvious starting point.
- ianai 7y agoTheir money can market both that nuclear is safe and they’re to be trusted. Plenty of oxygen for both.
- wallace_f 7y agoDo you really believe that a billionaire clearly funding a marketing campaign for themselves would be received well? Charity often does good, but often does not have the intended or apparent result. See William Easterly on the subject.
- imtringued 7y agoIf they really cared they would invest into getting rid of the source of the anti nuclear sentiment: shut down obsolete power plants with unsafe designs. Fukushima and Chernobyl happened because everyone ignored this simple advice. Nuclear power plants are so capital intensive that operators keep plants with known design defects or gross mismanagement running.