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SarahD

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2. We are about to plunge ahead.

Reply to Eko (Original post)

Sun Feb 4, 2024, 12:29 AM

Feb 2024

I think the PR blitz has convinced many, many people that nukes are the only way to combat climate change. It's a quick and easy escape route that we think will allow us to maintain our excessive life style. That's true but it's not going to be cheap.

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The lowest point wants to tell us how great nuclear is and how bad renewables are. [View all] Eko Feb 2024 OP

allowing ourselves to be talked out of nuclear stopdiggin Feb 2024 #1

Your premise is faulty. Eko Feb 2024 #3

I'm of the camp that says the ecological costs of nuclear stopdiggin Feb 2024 #4

We are about to plunge ahead. SarahD Feb 2024 #2

Not quick, not easy. Igel Feb 2024 #6

Cheap, dirty bombs for the next billion years or so. jaxexpat Feb 2024 #5