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> People altogether need to stop driving so much, spending so much, and living more modestly. Yeah I believe I said that when I said we need to make large sacr
by cableshaft 5y ago
> People altogether need to stop driving so much, spending so much, and living more modestly.
Yeah I believe I said that when I said we need to make large sacrifices, I just didn't specify what those sacrifices were exactly.
I don't think green tech is the end-all be-all. I honestly think we're kind of fucked either way (if anything I was holding back, I've been reading some pretty bleak shit about how impossible this task will be and how bad things can get, but this is Hacker News and most people here don't seem to be receptive to that). Clean tech is just part of reducing the degree of how fucked we are, at least slightly.
And I also think nuclear energy needs to be part of that solution to bring down emissions as well, at least for now. I haven't been against nuclear power for a long time, and was disappointed how people shunned it again after Fukushima.
- MeinBlutIstBlau 5y agoOne reason we don't do nuclear is not enough people are skilled in it, we don't want to invest in building them after just having decommissioned two, and they are the ultimate NIMBY powerplant. Tell people there's a coal plant and they may get upset. Tell them there's a nuclear power plant after just having seen the HBO series Chernobyl and guess how fast they'll be knocking down the city governments door to not allow it. You're spot on really. People just don't trust it and there's nothing we can do about it.