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People don't sign up for pollution from fossil fuels either.
by pitaj 6y ago
People don't sign up for pollution from fossil fuels either.
- kcmastrpc 6y agoYes, they do. If you drive a car, heat your home via gas/electricity, use the internet (to post this) -- you signed up for it.
- pitaj 6y agoOkay then by the same logic people do sign up for nuclear by using the electricity for their homes, the internet, etc
- oblio 6y agoThat's not how it works :-) I don't smoke but until they started banning smoking everywhere, plenty of people would sign me up for passive smoking without asking me anything.
- kergonath 6y agoHow so? Do the particulates and aerosols avoid me breathing them in because I don’t drive a car and use electric heating? How does it work? Pollution from fossil fuel is unavoidable in quite a lot of places regardless of your life style. Also, much more deadly than anything related to nuclear so far.
- didibus 6y agoIt's an emotional response though, like how there are still more people with a parallizing fear of flight that don't have a problem hopping into a car. Like I said, I'm not justifying being against Nuclear, but explaining the challenge with Nuclear's general acceptance, there is a fear response from people, and it'll need to be curbed and addressed. That fear response is due to the grandiose nature of a Nuclear failure which fossil fuel don't have, even if they kill you slowly and might lead to world ending catastrophies.