Re:Nuclear energy is a vital part of solving the climate crisis
by avar on Friday November 08, 2019 @01:34PM
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> Yet people still live next to the ocean in Japan as we speak. Completely, utterly irrational.
There's entire towns that are still part of an exclusion zone people can't live in and around Fukushima. Even if you live near the coast in Japan a tsunami isn't likely to make the town you grew up in not exist anymore, there'll just be a lot of damage to deal with.
I'm generally pro-nuclear, but pretending this difference doesn't exist is disingenuous, particularly since the cost is disproportionately carried by people in rural areas living near nuclear power plants, whereas most of the benefactors of the energy production live elsewhere.
Re:Nuclear energy is a vital part of solving the climate crisis
by bronson on Friday November 08, 2019 @01:03PM
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Just because you don't understand other peoples' value systems, that doesn't mean they're irrational.
Re:Nuclear energy is a vital part of solving the climate crisis
by AnthonyMouse on Friday November 08, 2019 @01:18PM
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Doesn't mean they're not, either.
Re:Nuclear energy is a vital part of solving the climate crisis
by mlyle on Friday November 08, 2019 @02:38PM
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On some level, anything that isn't a paperclip optimizer is irrational. People weight what's important to them, and strive for those goals.
Re:Nuclear energy is a vital part of solving the climate crisis
by AnthonyMouse on Friday November 08, 2019 @02:57PM
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"Everything is relative so nothing is anything" doesn't solve climate change. Everybody is wrong but some people are wronger.
You mean the Tsunami is like that? Because as far as we know there is MAYBE only one death that was attributed to the Fukushima nuclear incident for example, while thousands lost their lives to the Tsunami in the matter of seconds. yet people still live next to the ocean in Japan as we speak. Completely, utterly irrational.