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That's actually astonishing. As so often it feels like the reactionary culture of the US is actively dragging the world down. Especially in relation to environm
by dbspin 3y ago
That's actually astonishing. As so often it feels like the reactionary culture of the US is actively dragging the world down. Especially in relation to environmental protection, privacy rights and conflict escalation.
- AdmiralAsshat 3y agoA microcosm of US mentality is the number of people who blast RATM's Killing In the Name Of purely for the refrain, "Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me!" and have absolutely no idea what the rest of the song is about. Including the subset of people who fail to realize that the song is specifically about them.
- 93po 3y agoSome of the most damaging reactionary culture is being anti-nuclear despite it clearly being the best method of power generation alongside wind and solar. And the US is not alone in being stupidly anti-nuclear
- ffsm8 3y agoI don't think the data supports this thesis, even though it comes up every so often. We should absolutely use the existing nuclear reactors until they can't be maintained anymore, but it's economics never really made sense. It was only viable because the construction was essentially socialized and the storage for the waste never included in the calculation. But I'm not a specialist on the topic, so I'm not talking with authority here.
- 93po 3y agoNuclear is by far the cheapest large scale generation option if you factor in the cost in dollars and human lives for the nasty byproducts of fossil fuel based energy. And nuclear waste is somewhere between a solved problem and non-issue despite lots of propaganda saying otherwise. Millions of people die a year from fossil fuel burning. Effectively zero for nuclear.