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the sooner we move to nuclear the quicker we will get to clean energy
by lancemurdock 5y ago
the sooner we move to nuclear the quicker we will get to clean energy
- mrtesthah 5y agoClean energy alone is not nearly enough to solve ecological collapse. You also need to stop the conversion of wild areas into monocrop agriculture and confine metropolitan development, to stop the loss of further carbon sinks. And even once you can stop all new greenhouse gas emissions, there’s still the massive task of removing all the excess CO2 currently in the atmosphere, which would otherwise remain for thousands of years and continue to drive carbon-releasing feedback loops in the permafrost, ocean, arctic ice, and rainforests.
- mellavora 5y agoyou forgot to mention cleaning up all of the plastic and other poisons, also it would be nice to preserve some of the aquafiers. Oh, and also the dirt (at current erosion rates, the US runs out of dirt at the end of the century). I'm probably forgetting a few things myself.
- Milkman128 5y agonuclear as a tech is great but its still managed by humans.
- Milkman128 5y agodowvotes? so whats the disagreement? Chernobyl? Fukushima? aren't humanities failures?