• spyd3r@sh.itjust.works
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    6 months ago

    Imagine where we’d be if leftists embraced nuclear power instead of killing it off everywhere they could.

      • Cryophilia@lemmy.world
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        6 months ago

        basically exactly the same situation as we’re in now

        You think if we take away 50 years of burning fossil fuels we’d be in “the same situation as we’re in now”?? Wtf are you smoking?

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            6 months ago

            As if it’s fucking green activists blocking nuclear and not the fossil fuel lobby

            It literally is, though I suspect the greens are the useful stooges of the fossil fuel propaganda.

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                6 months ago

                So I quoted this sentence:

                As if it’s fucking green activists blocking nuclear and not the fossil fuel lobby

                And then you started talking a bunch of blah blah about renewables, which I will note is NOT in that sentence.

                And you did not mention nuclear, which I will note is the entire SUBJECT of that sentence.

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        6 months ago

        No, because until we solve the storage issues with electricity. You need a reliable baseline power source in the grid. Solar has 0% cost effectiveness at night. Nuclear is 100 times more environmentally friendly than coal. Even with the long term waste storage issues.

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          6 months ago

          Hydroelectric plants, batteries, generation on site, wave power, geothermal, … There are lots of ways to reduce the need of non renewable energy.

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      6 months ago

      Here in Italy, the only parties that seem to be favorable to nuclear are right-wing.

      And of course, they got elected and didn’t actually do anything towards it.

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        6 months ago

        Never trust right-wingers to do literally anything.

        If a right wing party promises to take all the money from the rich and redistribute it to the poor, they’re lying.

        If a right wing party promises to invest in public transit, they’re lying.

        If a right wing party promises to pass a law enshrining LGBTQ rights, they’re lying.

        They’re just a bunch of fucking liars, all they exist for is to make rich people richer.

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          6 months ago

          Oh, I trust them to do everything I wouldn’t like them to do.

          For example, so far they’ve been following through with removing LGBTQ rights and lowering taxes for the rich, just as they promised.