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minus-squareRememberTheApollo_@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up28arrow-down6·13 hours agoTBF a nuclear incident is not like burning just one house down. It’s burning down the whole city and making it unusable for a decade or ten.
minus-squarePyr_Pressure@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·7 hours agoWhy not build it in a remote location then? Dams can also produce a lot of hydroelectric power, and a catastrophic failure could also destroy an entire town or more. We just don’t build dams upstream of a large town.
minus-squarejaschen@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·11 hours agoWhile 100% true for nuclear, the current state of burning fossil fuels is much MUCH worse.
minus-squareRememberTheApollo_@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·11 hours agoYes. Over the long term it will render the planet uninhabitable, or at least close enough to it.
minus-squarejaschen@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·7 hours agoSome experts would argue it’s already starting to be uninhabitable.
minus-squareOsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·13 hours agoI think a town burning down would be fatal for most the inhabitants 3000 BC
minus-squareRememberTheApollo_@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down2·13 hours agoYes, maybe… but the point being they could, and often did, rebuild right where they’d been before. Radiation prevents that.
TBF a nuclear incident is not like burning just one house down. It’s burning down the whole city and making it unusable for a decade or ten.
Why not build it in a remote location then?
Dams can also produce a lot of hydroelectric power, and a catastrophic failure could also destroy an entire town or more. We just don’t build dams upstream of a large town.
While 100% true for nuclear, the current state of burning fossil fuels is much MUCH worse.
Yes. Over the long term it will render the planet uninhabitable, or at least close enough to it.
Some experts would argue it’s already starting to be uninhabitable.
I think a town burning down would be fatal for most the inhabitants 3000 BC
Yes, maybe… but the point being they could, and often did, rebuild right where they’d been before. Radiation prevents that.