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Re:China to supercharge uranium race with 150 new nuclear re... by jimbob45 on Monday November 08, 2021 @02:03PM (#29152913)
I was always under the impression that the US gets the most negative press about emissions because we have the highest per-capita (no way we were ever going to top China in total emissions lol). However, the US doesn't even appear to be top-10 on the per-capita chart [0], even coming in under some large countries likes Canada and Australia.

There's a bit of a cognitive dissonance here though. The US is the leader of the world and everyone looks to us on how to build their countries. No one wants to admit it but everyone wants to be as good as us. However, when we fail to live up to our reputation, the rest of the world is right to call us out for not living up to our reputation (that, to be fair, we regularly leverage). If you're in the US and you don't want to be criticized, that's fine, but then you can't also claim that the US is the best/strives to be the best.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di...

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Re:China to supercharge uranium race with 150 new nuclear re... by godelski on Monday November 08, 2021 @02:20PM (#29153077)
The US should lead the way. The problem is that we aren't and can't get our leaders to do anything. I'm also not concerned with the criticism, as it is warranted. I'm concerned that the problem still persists and no one else will pick up the mantle. This is just kicking it down the road and saying that someone else should solve it. Even if that's true, it doesn't mean the problem isn't getting worse in the mean time.
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Re:China to supercharge uranium race with 150 new nuclear re... by nuclearwast on Monday November 08, 2021 @03:10PM (#29153629)
To be fair it's not even your leader's fault. Most of the people are against doing anything about green energy. Hydro quebec produce TWh of green electricity but failed to bring it sucessfully anywhere.

here is the lastest failure.

https://www.boston25news.com/news/local/baker-hydro-corridor...

IMO they will fail in new york as well.

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