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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The worst nuclear disaster has led to 1,000sq miles of land being unsafe for human inhabitants.

Using fossil fuels for power is destroying of the entire planet.

It's really not that complicated.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Except that nuclear isn't the only, or even the cheapest, alternative to fossil fuels.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Except that powering the world with nuclear would require thousands of reactors and so much more disasters. This doesn't even factor the space abandonned to store «normal» toxic materials.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This doesn't even factor the space abandonned to store «normal» toxic materials.

You mean under ground from where it was dug out?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The plant itself, water inevitably getting in contact with wastes and leaking also.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You mean water under ground? It was in contact million years before any of us was born.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Million years were sufficient for the radioactivity to decay before life started to evolve on earth.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Then how does it fuel nuclear reactors?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Both sound terrible.

I don’t really want to pick the lessor of two evils when it comes to the energy.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We are on a time limit thanks to climate change. We can't afford to complain about picking the lessor of two evils.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The option proposed is that making a small area of the planet inhabitable or worsening climate change. Sorry but that’s a shitty comparison.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Bet you’d feel* differently if you were a resident of one of the island nations that’s going to drown in the next decade or two. That part of the world’s definitely going to be uninhabitable if we continue to do nothing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

By not picking, you are picking fossil fuels. Because we can't fully replace everything with solar/wind yet, and fossil fuels are already being burned as we speak.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

No, give me an option that doesn’t make a part of the world uninhabitable or increases climate change.

That just a stupid comparison and is there any reason why we can’t also do wind solar thermal hydro also? It’s fossil fuels or nuclear and that’s it?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

No, give me an option that doesn’t make a part of the world uninhabitable or increases climate change.

That just a stupid comparison and is there any reason why we can’t also do wind solar thermal hydro also? It’s fossil fuels or nuclear and that’s it huh?