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> For renewables the only harm that comes are for the people who has chosen to work in the industry. We are definitively not including hydro power and their da

• ViewTrick1002 6mo ago
  On a whole hydro has saved lives due to managing rivers which previously caused devastating floods. The reason a ton of dams exists is not to make power, it is manage the river. Making power is a secondary concern. But when we’re done with climate change we should of course restore as many rivers as possible due to the ecosystem damage they cause.
  • mpweiher 6mo ago
    On the whole, nuclear power has saved many more lives, over 1.8 million up to 2011. https://www.giss.nasa.gov/pubs/abs/kh05000e.html https://www.giss.nasa.gov/pubs/abs/kh05000e.html And the worst power-production disaster in history so far was neither Fukushima nor Chernobyl, but the 1975 Banqiao Dam failure. And it's not even close. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Banqiao_Dam_failure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Banqiao_Dam_failure