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The irony of the tweeter complaining about nuclear being shut down in favour of wood is that it's the hand-wringing of environmentalists that caused them to sid
by thrwyoilarticle 4y ago
The irony of the tweeter complaining about nuclear being shut down in favour of wood is that it's the hand-wringing of environmentalists that caused them to side with fossil fuel companies and make us continue to depend on oil, gas and coal in the first place. Now they're doing it with wood, complaining about imperfect implementations to give up on the concept while we burn gas and make things out of plastic.
More demand for sustainable wood means more wood planted means more CO2 captured. More wooden furniture and housebuilding material means more CO2 sequestered. Eventually it will rot but anything that ages and is still needed will be replaced, leading to a constant net reduction in atmospheric CO2, like a capacitor.
Fossil fuels are the alternative, not nuclear - and that's the green movement's fault.
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- mandmandam 4y ago> it's the hand-wringing of environmentalists that caused them to side with fossil fuel companies I'mma stop you right there. It's a safe bet all that noise was sponsored and amplified by fossil fuel companies. MANY environmentalists are pro nuclear. They don't get as much time on the fossil-fuel sponsored airwaves though. Blaming "the green movement" as if it's a monolith, unanimously or even majorly anti-nuclear, means you swallowed the fossil fuel propaganda. Spit it out.
- thrwyoilarticle 4y agoWhen the green movement makes a party and swallows enough to make being anti-nuclear part of its manifesto, it's a monolith.
- mandmandam 4y agoThat is unfortunate, but there are two important points you seem to be missing: 1. The US Green party is NOT the green movement. 2. Even in the US Green party there is a large block of dissent: https://www.greensfornuclear.energy/ https://www.greensfornuclear.energy/