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  • ricdeh 4 points 58 minutes ago* (last edited 56 minutes ago)

    Just wait for the nuclear shills to flood in and claim that nuclear fission is a sustainable and necessary form of power generation. No, it is not. Uranium extraction devastates entire landscapes, the construction of nuclear power plants is too expensive (even for SMRs, as the article explains), ergo electricity prices will climb, it is a hugely wasteful use of so many tonnes of concrete (concrete manufacturing is heavy on the environment too), it creates waste that will still haunt us for hundreds of thousands of years (finding geological structures that are guaranteed to be stable that long is difficult), and relative to the initial construction and set-up effort, they don’t provide that much energy. We already have methods that can provide us plenty enough electricity that are entirely sustainable by leveraging large-scale atmospheric aerodynamics as well as the largest nuclear fusion reactor at our disposal (the sun). There’s simply no need to go nuclear.

    Brought to you by fossil fuel propaganda filtered through renewable resource advocates who would also lose out to nuclear energy.





  • BlanketsWithSmallpox@lemmy.worldtoComics@lemmy.mlThanks, dad
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    Because contributing in a utopia means living the shared experience by not hurting others.

    A human system short of severe forced genetic manipulation will always require a visible way of showing that you’ve contributed.

    That could mean making art all day. That could mean saying Hi to Grandma. It could mean getting a basic stipend for not being a criminal who hurts others.

    Regardless, there will be a way to tell you who’s done more and who hasn’t. It doesn’t have to be money. It can be social credit ala China or more likely money just like it is now. That person WILL be selected to do something before the person in the basement doing nothing but synth-heroin. There will be a way to show to others around you that you are verifiably more deserving of something than another person is just through that fact that we live on a planet, solar system, or galaxy with finite resources and more importantly, finite time, and you’ve contributed unselfishly.



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    More importantly it’s just not really true.

    Money will always be a part of human culture because we need some kind of default monetary value that says you’ve contributed to the betterment of your fellow man in some way.

    This won’t go away when we have cold fusion and a Dyson sphere lol.

    Despite this, the vast majority of these people are typing from well off countries in areas that won’t be affected by the severe parts of climate change.

    You know who mostly gets boned from climate change? Like, the literal worst climate change or severe nuclear winter. It’s not most Europeans, Americans, or Chinese I’ll tell you that lol.

    Doomers are suckers who have eaten up propaganda meant to make the world worse through apathy and inaction. It’s worsened when they know they’re addicted to the internet but it’s easier to not care about their future and pretend everything is against them rather than try to better their and everyone’s lives somehow. It’s the bane of the mentally unwell, lazy, easily swayed, and non-curious.

    Get ready for the Green washing comments lol.

    https://concernusa.org/news/countries-most-affected-by-climate-change/

    https://www.vox.com/22620706/climate-change-ipcc-report-2021-ssp-scenario-future-warming

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LxgMdjyw8uw