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People get impatient. A lot of suppressed opposition finds its voice when even more objectionable views on anything are voiced, it's "the overton window" effect

• defrost 2y ago
  > In Australia support for nuclear is .. Weirder and weirder the more you drill into it; I haven't had the time yet to look at the range of polls and framing of poll questions on nuclear in Australia, I suspect the various factions having been very selective in their reporting. At a guess there's large support for nuclear when framed as a distant future, no associated cost, carbon zero, possible energy solution; this makes sense and explains one poll return I've seen. Other Australian polls have extremely low support, these I guess are the polls framed as an expensive option to be built one suburb over. Another Australian factor is the high price of gas fired energy on the east coast; anything framed as an alternative to that will see support.
• JumpCrisscross 2y ago
  > support for nuclear is growing amongst young b men more than young women and much more than in the over 50s I’d bet, in America, red states resistant to solar would accept nuclear power.
  • bdangubic 2y ago
    Red states will accept whatever Red state politicians tell them - as long as nuclear lobby does its thing you are right