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Re:Japan’s plan to dump nuclear waste into the pacific ocean... by cwp on Thursday April 28, 2022 @12:34PM (#31194688)
What does renewability have to do with climate change?
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Re:Japan’s plan to dump nuclear waste into the pacific ocean... by hypertele-Xii on Thursday April 28, 2022 @12:52PM (#31194893)
When you burn a tree, everything that's released into the atmosphere is something the tree absorbed from the atmosphere as it grew. So it's plus minus zero in terms of pollution.

When you burn non-renewables, i.e. stuff dug up from the ground, you're adding pollution into the atmosphere.

Pollution that changes the climate.

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