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Young climate activist tells Greenpeace to drop ‘old-fashioned’ anti-nuclear stance

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  • Solar is yellowish orange, wind is gray, hydro is blue. Nuclear is the only green one.

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  • The classic shortsighted point of view that has put us in the current situation in the first place.

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  • Ok, so from your point of view 40% fossil fuels is still doing fine? I interpreted your original comment to mean they were doing 100% or close to it in renewables. Then I misunderstood.

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  • What it really should be is nuclear plus renewables plus a ton of batteries (or other storage options) vs fossil fuels.

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  • I'm sorry but burning methane isn't doing just fine.

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  • Do you know how much nuclear waste has been produced in the whole world for the entire history of nuclear energy production?

    Around 500 000 tonnes.

    That's 0.001% of the waste thrown into the atmosphere by fossil fuels EVERY YEAR.

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  • The same people who run the oil companies also run nuclear plants

    What? You keep saying this in this thread, where the hell are you getting it from?

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  • What are you talking about? Nuclear has been the target of a massive misinformation campaign from the fossil fuel corporations for decades. Looks like you've fallen for the FUD. People have been formatted by literally every form of media to think of nuclear as something dirty, dumping green glowing waste into the environment, and making fish grow extra heads.

    Countries like Germany have been closing perfectly fine NPPs because of FUD funded by their huge fossil fuel lobby. 80% of our energy is from fossils, and they have apparently successfully convinced people that we shouldn't attack that number with every tool at our disposal. Meanwhile, we're collectively spending literally trillions of dollars on fossil fuel subsidies every year. Is that what pushing nuclear hard looks like?

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  • That's the exact argument people have been making for 60 years, and look where we are now. Around 80% of the world's energy is still from fossil fuels. Do you want to continue making the same mistakes as the previous generations?

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  • Good thing you don't have cats then, sounds like you'd be an irresponsible owner.

    • Young climate activist tells Greenpeace to drop ‘old-fashioned’ anti-nuclear stance

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  • I was adding context to the "downvote button is a disagree button". We're in complete agreement.

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  • Way ahead of you this time, bot. Keep fighting the good fight.

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  • Not really. Ideally people should only downvote when something isn't contributing to the conversation, and if you disagree you reply to it and voice your disagreement.

    But people are going to be people, so it eventually always turns into a "disagree" button, cause it's much easier than commenting.

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  • We can and should be doing both. Use the money our governments are giving to fossil fuels in subsidies. $7 trillion PER YEAR (that's 11 million every minute) in public subsidies go to fossil fuels. Channel that to nuclear and renewables and there's more than enough to decarbonise the grids with both short- and long-term solutions.

    What we definitely should not be doing is closing perfectly working nuclear power plants.

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  • They deserve to explore and be happy

    Do they deserve to explore and suffer horrible injuries and/or death? All the while decimating local bird populations, and, if not spayed or neutered, creating more kittens to live lives full of suffering and hardship?

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  • He's talking about noise, not thermals.

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  • the Greens didn't close nuclear power plants in favor of fossil fuels.

    Well, seeing as they're still using fossil fuel plants, they kinda did. They can say it was to change to renewables all they want, but if they're still burning fossils then what's the point? Shouldn't their main objective be decarbonisation?

    • Climate change: Thousands of penguins die in Antarctic ice breakup

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  • This is what the oil companies want you to think. The less hope you have the longer they'll keep making profit. They still receive trillions in public subsidies, it's criminal.

    We may never go back, but if we did cut 100% of emissions tomorrow, it would have a huge impact. These penguins would have a much better chance for the future, for one, and so would plenty of other species.