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3. Thanks, but I am completely incapable of understanding why anyone would NOT be a fan of nuclear energy.
Sat Sep 28, 2024, 10:57 AM
Sep 2024

It's our last best hope, although the fossil fuel industry, which is killing the planet, has managed to rachet up, via "but her emails" type selective attention, its demonization. It is the fossil fuel industry that is killing people, and indeed the planet.

Nuclear energy need not be without risk to be vastly superior to everything else. It only needs to be vastly superior to everything else, which it is.

To me, fear of nuclear energy is just evidence that propaganda is very powerful. I personally regard antinuclear rhetoric as the exact and precise equivalent of antivax thinking, which involves elevating rare negative events over the vast benefits.

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