I’m so goddamn mad that oil companies have known climate change is real for decades and did everything to stop people from acting on it. I want to burn their offices down. I want to throw their CEOs into a fucking pit. The world is being destroyed because some filthy rich fucks saw the end coming and figured making money off it was better than saving it. That’s pure evil, plain and simple.
The death of George, and the resulting extinction of this species of
tree snail, should serve as a wake-up call, highlighting a much larger
issue in Hawaii’s forests that’s been going on for a century.
that “Scientists remind world clean energy is ready to go whenever” picture but instead of gay ass solar panels it’s nuclear powerplants
Fukushima tho
“Hey nuclear energy is clean and highly efficient and is incredibly underused”
“What about that one time where a catastrophic earthquake and tsunami hit the reactor coupled with poor communication between on site personnel and the Japanese government which resulted in a localized containment of the surrounding town with no real long lasting injuries.”
I heard it was still dumping radiation into the ocean daily? 😦
Yes, but we’re talking minuscule amounts. Look, Fukushima, Chernobyl, and Three-Mile Island were the worst nuclear disasters in history, and yet they’ve killed less than a hundred people *combined*.
The Fukushima reactor broke because the Japanese government prioritized the *appearance* of safety, while refusing to acknowledge any flaws in the reactor’s design.
The Chernobyl reactor went into meltdown because people who did not understand nuclear power demanded the plant put our more power than it could and overrode numerous fail safes to do so.
Three-Mile Island went into meltdown, but only trace amounts of radiation leaked out. The fail safes in place functioned exactly as they were supposed to and contained the overwhelming majority of the radiation.
There are dozens of nuclear power plants all along America’s Gulf Coast that get hit by hurricanes every year or so. And none of them have ever gone into meltdown because they were designed to withstand them.
When properly constructed and maintained, nuclear power plants produce more power than similar fossil fuel plants, require far less space than solar or wind farms, and can be built pretty much anywhere, unlike hydroelectric dams. They really are the best kind of power plant we have.
Fucking NIMBY bullshit. Public ignorance is a large force against nuclear energy
Not to mention that within my lifetime and perhaps in the next few decades we’re going to figure out nuclear fusion which does not use radioactive materials, uses the two most common elements in the universe; hydrogen and helium, has no risk of nuclear meltdown like fission reactors, and does not produce toxic wastes.
I mean I’m not going to count on fusion any time soon, but we don’t NEED to.
Nuclear power is actually INCREDIBLY FUCKING SAFE AND CLEAN compared to EVERY OTHER KIND WE HAVE, JESUS CHRIST.
I have looked at a number of “how fucked are we in re climate change” projections. The availability of nuclear power and the ability to build more nuclear power plants makes us WAY LESS FUCKED. In large part because nuclear provides consistent, stable amounts of power, whereas solar and wind are inherently variable. A 100% wind/solar/hydro renewables grid is not feasible. A 100% renewables plus nuclear grid might be.
The massive downside to meaningful action on climate change is that if global warming is false were left with a clean environment and a sustainable economic model. What a bummer
Not caring for the environment because it’s consequences won’t be in your lifetime is the large scale version of not replacing the toilet paper roll after you finish it.
This study reveals that a lot of the heat that was thought to be escaping to space is actually being absorbed in the ocean – and means the planet is more sensitive to carbon emissions then was thought, he said.
we’re neatly making the transition from “it is too early to panic” to “it is too late to panic”
ifesbob 