Environment & Energy

...of deadly goods, that nuclear energy is "too dangerous" and fossil fuels aren't "too dangerous."

The world is burning as a result, and still we have these tiresome fools whining about things they don't understand, layering them on irrelevant crap about "profit." I note as a result of the contemptable ignorance of antinukes, the fossil fuel industry is extremely profitable.

The war in Ukraine was funded by profits provided by Russian sales of gas, oil and coal to German antinukes.

Do any antinukes here, have no sense, at long last, of decency?

It's not about profit, other than the profits provided to the fossil fuel industry by miscreants attacking the only alternative, fission energy.

It's about ignorance.

Nuclear reactors have failed, and it takes a healthy dollop of arrogant ignorance to claim that these failures are worse than a dying atmosphere on a burning planet, but cults - and let's be clear that antinukism has all the properties of a cult, since no amount of information can change the minds of its adherents - cannot process the information that their little trivial bugaboos, their idiot chants of "Chernobyl!!! Fukushima!!!," events that did not do what antinukism has done, leave a world in flames.

It would be interesting if these people so caught up in bullshit about nuclear accidents gave as much of a shit about the 7 million people who will die this year from air pollution because of their service to fossil fuels, but they have neither the intellectual nor the moral strength nor the simple decency to do so.

Whose "permission" should China have asked to save human lives by building nuclear reactors? Chanting antinukes who want to tear the shit out of the earth and even the ocean floor for minerals to lie that the wind and solar energy are "renewable?"

Sustainable minerals and metals for a low-carbon future, Science, 367, 6473, 30-33, 2020.

Do we have here another, "I'm not an antinuke" antinuke here announcing that he, she or they with no training is better qualified to give "permission" than the highly trained engineers who run the Chinese nuclear program?

Is there one "I'm not an antinuke" antinuke who has any idea of how much work goes into becoming a nuclear engineer? What impetuous arrogance allows these sorts to think that anyone needs their permission to do good work on behalf of humanity?

One obvious tell of an antinuke, including those who march around here declaring themselves to not be antinuclear, the "I'm not an antinuke" antinukes, while raising one asinine after asinine another objection to nuclear energy is that they, like members of other cults, assume that only their opinion matters, their grotesquely uneducated opinions.

The most important point is that they never have, do not now, and never will give a fuck about fossil fuels. Their whole bullshit so called "renewable energy" scam is about attacking the last, best, hope of the world, nuclear energy. The Germans didn't phase out coal, or gas, or oil. They embraced them all. Every living thing on Earth is paying for that decision. They shut their nuclear plants. This makes it painfully clear what so called "renewable energy" is about.

My sig line in my posts here, from Max Born, atomic physicist and Nobel Laureate, seems to fit the bill here.

One of the big, big, big problems we face, the one that has literally left the world in flames, is that the piddling, pernicious, paranoia of antinukes, has gained wide acceptance, treating it as the only "truth," the one they alone possess, when in fact, their "truth" is nothing more than the muttering rhetoric of stupidity. It's irrational fear and the elevation ignorance, raised in times where ignorance is celebrated, that is strangling the world.

Have a nice day tomorrow.