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[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

It's unhealthy and unsafe to live near Chernobyl.

I'm with you most of the way, but it's also extremely unhealthy to live near a coal power plant. That's why they keep building them in or next to neighborhoods where the residents are too poor to be able to effectively sue them for all the cancer and other nasty deaths.

[-] Dr_pepper_spray@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I agree that we need to get away from coal and natural gas. I don't think Nuclear is the answer though. You're trading one set of major health and financial problems for another.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Agreed. At CURRENT technology levels, renewable energy is the most cost-effective, creates more and better jobs, can cover 100%+ of the world's energy needs and is much more reliable and flexible than fossil fuel or nuclear to boot. All that on top of being the only kind that never runs out. Only thing missing is the political will to break with the fossil barons and their cousins the radioactive lordlings to make the transition.

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