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Nobody wants a nuclear power plant anywhere near their homes. Nobody wants nuclear waste transported to disposal centers through their towns. Conversely, people like solar because 90% of the world's cobalt needed for the batteries is found in the Congo region so it's that environment being poisoned. Because the old solar panels end up in landfills in Africa and Asia, not in their city.
Nobody wants a nuclear power plant anywhere near their homes. Nobody wants nuclear waste transported to disposal centers through their towns. Conversely, people like solar because 90% of the world's cobalt needed for the batteries is found in the Congo region so it's that environment being poisoned. Because the old solar panels end up in landfills in Africa and Asia, not in their city.
Yes we should be leading in nuclear. But we won't. Solar and wind are so much more popular and are perceived as completely clean when they are not.
And how we create false beliefs of things being clean is we choose not to look and observe. We have whole industries built around this like advertising, lobbying, etc. Nothing is ideal, yet we live in material reality but also simultaneously hyper-reality of beliefs and ideas.
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The NY Times editorials bemoaned Joe Manchin holding Biden’s climate agenda in his hands…
- 20/09/2021 02:26:25 AM
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Is he supposed to be a leader or a vote-button-punch monkey?
- 20/09/2021 02:58:22 AM
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Everyone in Congress votes as their constituents want them to vote.
- 20/09/2021 03:35:30 AM
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They do?
- 20/09/2021 03:00:21 PM
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what a skillful riposte
- 20/09/2021 03:26:57 PM
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If you'd share relevant data...
- 20/09/2021 06:56:16 PM
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You can't it is Hume's Guillotine ... time to boot up Matrix 4 with the Red and Blue Pill 
*NM*
- 20/09/2021 07:18:00 PM
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*NM*
- 20/09/2021 07:18:00 PM
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one would surmise there is at least a modest connection
- 20/09/2021 08:47:57 PM
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But neither extreme is true
- 21/09/2021 12:04:49 AM
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Did she defeat Crowley because the 14th District is so progressive?
- 21/09/2021 12:52:20 AM
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He's a senator. There are no restrictions or gerrymandering at the state level.
- 22/09/2021 08:21:07 PM
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That is not his name, nor the name of his son. *NM*
- 20/09/2021 03:41:16 AM
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Manchin. Big fucking deal. Doesn’t change the point one bit. *NM*
- 20/09/2021 05:14:46 AM
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I am not going to argue the point for you know better, and it is not going to change anything
- 20/09/2021 05:34:14 AM
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Unbiased media is dead, if it ever lived to begin with. Get used to it, old man!
- 22/09/2021 12:58:42 AM
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He is representing his state well.
- 22/09/2021 08:19:21 PM
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Because of reconciliation, they are using a technical means to do that.
- 22/09/2021 10:42:05 PM
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Re: Because of reconciliation, they are using a technical means to do that.
- 28/09/2021 09:18:07 PM
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The Shrike, nothing about this process is ideal, I am merely explaining they have an answer to your
- 28/09/2021 10:32:39 PM
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I'm not convinced that wind and solar are good long term solutions.
- 23/09/2021 08:54:26 PM
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Nuclear is still the best option. But the modern Green voter is not scientifically literate.
- 28/09/2021 09:16:39 PM
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It's another NIMBY thing.
- 28/09/2021 09:38:20 PM
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Nothing is completely clean
- 28/09/2021 10:34:48 PM
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Obviously, nothing is completely clean
- 28/09/2021 11:15:33 PM
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That is wishcasting
- 28/09/2021 11:41:39 PM
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We should import more French people.
- 29/09/2021 01:19:50 PM
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Massachusetts would definitely support building a nuclear power plant
- 29/09/2021 01:46:24 PM
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On that same note... take a good look at a map of the French nuclear power plants.
- 29/09/2021 06:40:49 PM
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