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Ah the old "it'd be cheap if you'd just let us try and kill you". If your business model requires hundreds of emergency workers to heroically dive on the grena
by Schroedingersat 4y ago
Ah the old "it'd be cheap if you'd just let us try and kill you".
If your business model requires hundreds of emergency workers to heroically dive on the grenade once every couple of years to stop the disaster getting orders of magnitude worse than merely destroying a country's economy for decades, then it's going to start getting very hard to find people to keep diving on the grenade.
- illiarian 4y agoHere's your reasoning: Every few years we throw people at the disaster that is dams. And still: Banqiao and Shimantan Dams failure with 240 000 dead, Machchu-2 Dam failure with 5000 dead etc. clearly show us how dangerous this technology is, and how we should never, ever use it again.
- Schroedingersat 4y agoYeah, every single one of those people in Banqiao had to volunteer in order to stop it killing ten times more. Hiding behind victims of other disasters is absolutely disgusting.
- illiarian 4y agoBo one is hiding behind victims of other disasters. What you are doing though is unsubstantiated fear mongering. And I just applied your unsubstantiated fear mongering to a different power source. For some reason you didn't like it.
- Schroedingersat 4y agoWhat you are doing is called whataboutism. Nobody is arguing for making dams less safe on purpose. Nor are they the topic.
- illiarian 4y agoDon't use terms you don't understand. Here are your words: "If your business model requires hundreds of emergency workers to heroically dive on the grenade once every couple of years to stop the disaster..." I just applied that same fear-mongering reasoning to a power source whose model is quite literally what you described. Not as whatsboutism, but yo show how flawed and weak your readoning is.
- Schroedingersat 4y agoYou were trying to deflect when the topic is literally lowering standards until biannual chernobyls are the expectation by bringing up unrelated disasters. Chernobyl being a disaster that was narrowly avoided by thousands of workers shortening or straight up sacrificing their lives to stop it. You're trying to pretend that the USSR's offici numbers about deaths are the worst a disaster could ever get. I'm completely fine with you advocating for a Hydropower Regulatory Commission that holds hydro projects to the same standards by the way, sounds great. Similar for ending coal.