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Thought recently seen somewhere but don’t know who to credit: If nuclear power were just discovered yesterday, we’d all be hailing it as the miracle to solve c
by erentz 5y ago
Thought recently seen somewhere but don’t know who to credit:
If nuclear power were just discovered yesterday, we’d all be hailing it as the miracle to solve climate change.
- quickthrower2 5y agoThe problem with climate change is it doesn't kill people quick enough for us to take action. Covid on the other hand, we rushed out vaccines and people have generally accepted massive disruption to their lives to tame it. Even with Covid not all governments wanted to react quickly. If we treated climate change like covid, we'd be finding a way to create lots of nuclear reactors around the world really quickly. We might even create a few hundred of them in the middle of Australia and use it to make hydrogen or some other fuel and ship it around.
- erentz 5y agoYep. The thought experiment does a good job I think of highlighting just how much being linked to nuclear weapons and thus became a target for peace and environmental action has screwed us. Take that history away, drop this gift from the universe in our lap yesterday, and every environmentalist would be on board today.
- quickthrower2 5y agoYes that and Chernobyl too creates a bad image of nuclear.