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What ruined nuclear reputation is environmentalists who don't actually care for environment.
by UnFleshedOne 5y ago
What ruined nuclear reputation is environmentalists who don't actually care for environment.
- ncmncm 5y agoWhat ruined nuclear's reputation is corruption, and being the most expensive choice. (Although coal will end up overwhelmingly more costly, in the end!) Would it be so expensive without corruption? Who can say? Corruption is wired into the process. We are purely lucky that, for structural reasons, corruption is minimal on solar and wind projects. Probably this is because what it ought to cost is readily visible from the outset. There just isn't enough fat to attract graft.
- UnFleshedOne 5y agoYeah, most expensive choice, unless you count externalities of coal.
- Krasnol 5y agoParroting Shellenberger will never make you look like a serious participant in this discussion.
- UnFleshedOne 5y agoHaven't read his books, I must have gotten his ideas by osmosis. Now reading criticism of the books on his wiki page, I think his critics are not concerned with environment any further than it aids their real case if the quote below is a representative sample: "criticizing [The Death of Environmentalism: Global Warming in a Post-Environmental World] for demanding increased technological innovation rather than addressing the systemic concerns of people of color."
- Krasnol 5y agoYou don't have to read his books these days since the Astro-Turf he's fuelling with those phrases is all over social media. I won't even go into this baseless bashing of "environmentalists". It's cheap and disgusting. Some of them have dedicated their whole life to the cause while a shitty anthropologist bashes them while being paid by the same companies which pollute the planet.