sv1sjp@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoYoung climate activist tells Greenpeace to drop ‘old-fashioned’ anti-nuclear stancewww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square627fedilinkarrow-up1973arrow-down172
arrow-up1901arrow-down1external-linkYoung climate activist tells Greenpeace to drop ‘old-fashioned’ anti-nuclear stancewww.theguardian.comsv1sjp@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square627fedilink
minus-squareSemi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year ago Nuclear power is the ONLY form of clean energy that can be scaled up in time to save us from the worst of climate change Except the plants take so long to build they won’t be ready until we’re at 2°C
minus-squareInstrument_Data@livellosegreto.itlinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down1·1 year agoIt has been fifty years that “oh no they take so long to build, better never start” that by today we would have completely decarbonized energy generation if we started actually building them.
minus-squarecloud@lazysoci.allinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoDoesn’t matter, not it’s to late so think about something else
minus-squareInstrument_Data@livellosegreto.itlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year agoIt was too late ten years ago It is too late today It will be too late in ten years It is always too late. But weirdly it is never too late to be anti nuclear power.
minus-squarecloud@lazysoci.allinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoIt is also never to late to go full green energies and cut the useless spending such as private jets, luxury yatchs and son on
minus-squareSemi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoWe could have also built solar collectors in orbit and beamed carbon-free electricity to Earth if we started 50 years ago. Heck, if we funded fusion research properly there’s a good chance we’d have had that by the mid 90s
Except the plants take so long to build they won’t be ready until we’re at 2°C
It has been fifty years that “oh no they take so long to build, better never start” that by today we would have completely decarbonized energy generation if we started actually building them.
Doesn’t matter, not it’s to late so think about something else
It was too late ten years ago
It is too late today
It will be too late in ten years
It is always too late.
But weirdly it is never too late to be anti nuclear power.
It is also never to late to go full green energies and cut the useless spending such as private jets, luxury yatchs and son on
We could have also built solar collectors in orbit and beamed carbon-free electricity to Earth if we started 50 years ago.
Heck, if we funded fusion research properly there’s a good chance we’d have had that by the mid 90s