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elleng

(131,053 posts) Sat Mar 16, 2024, 12:01 AM Mar 16

*TCM now, The China Syndrome

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*TCM now, The China Syndrome (Original Post) elleng Mar 16 OP

My favorite line in the film... JoseBalow Mar 16 #1

'Good' one! elleng Mar 16 #2

I hate to bring my pessimism to the lounge, but this movie was a gift to the fossil fuel industry. hunter Mar 16 #3

JoseBalow

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1. My favorite line in the film...

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Sat Mar 16, 2024, 12:55 AM

Mar 16

"What makes you think they're looking for a scapegoat?"

"Tradition."

elleng

(131,053 posts)

2. 'Good' one!

Reply to JoseBalow (Reply #1)

Sat Mar 16, 2024, 12:56 AM

Mar 16

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When the film was first released on 16 March 1979, nuclear power executives soon lambasted the picture as being "sheer fiction" and a "character assassination of an entire industry". Then twelve days after its launch, the Three Mile Island nuclear accident occurred near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

hunter

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3. I hate to bring my pessimism to the lounge, but this movie was a gift to the fossil fuel industry.

Reply to elleng (Reply #2)

Sat Mar 16, 2024, 11:15 AM

Mar 16

Fossil fuels will be the end of this world as we know it. Billions of people will suffer and die. Some already are. The natural environment as we know it will be destroyed.

Like it or not, nuclear power is the only energy resource capable of displacing fossil fuels entirely.

Our wind and solar follies will only prolong our use of fossil fuels and do nothing, absolutely nothing, in the long run to reduce the total amount of greenhouse gasses humans dump into the atmosphere and oceans.

I used to be a radical anti-nuclear activist. I was young and foolish.

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