July 2023 was the hottest month on record

Re:July 2023 was the hottest month on record by johndevor on Wednesday August 16, 2023 @01:58PM (#37150989)

Sure, the right is crazy in one direction. But the left has shunned nuclear energy for decades, a viable solution that could have moved us in the right direction.

We should be proposing solutions, not blaming one side.

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Re:July 2023 was the hottest month on record by adrianN on Wednesday August 16, 2023 @02:05PM (#37151119)

We have been proposing solutions since the eighties. The problem is nobody wants to implement them.

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Re:July 2023 was the hottest month on record by vkou on Wednesday August 16, 2023 @02:00PM (#37151013)

The amount of influence fringe anti-nuke-groups actually have in most governments is ~0%.

The better criticism is that the 'left' that actually gets elected has done ~fuck-all to solve the problem, on any of the axes they could push. Of course, actually doing anything would be political suicide, and then the denialist-right gets all the power, and will also continue to do nothing.

It's not a 'two sides equivalence' issue. Anti-nuke people aren't the ones in control of the equilibrium, the right is. If the anti-nuke movement disappeared tomorrow, we'd still be in essentially the same pickle we're in. If the denialist-right movement dissapeared tomorrow, we might have some hope of making progress.

Just because you found one village idiot, doesn't mean that you should point at him, and shout that the village isn't really any different from the insane asylum up the road. They are not the same.

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Re:July 2023 was the hottest month on record by johndevor on Thursday August 17, 2023 @11:51AM (#37163561)

> The amount of influence fringe anti-nuke-groups actually have in most governments is ~0%.

Are you aware of the closure of many nuclear power plants (Germany & the US specifically)?

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