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In reply to the discussion: Biden Plans Wind Farms Along Entire U.S. Coastline [View all]hunter
(38,310 posts)... is that ordinary humans going about their daily lives are worse for the natural environment than radioactive fallout from the worst sorts of nuclear accidents.
Pound for pound, an affluent human does far more damage to the natural environment than used nuclear fuel safely stored away in a container. Used nuclear fuel goes nowhere and does nothing.
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At this point the Chernobyl tourists are probably doing more damage to the natural environment than the accident itself.
What's worse, we consider unremarkable the vast damages done by fossil fuels every day to our own human health and the natural environment.
Support for hybrid wind/gas power systems is just another form of climate change denial. A smoker who goes from a pack a day habit to a half pack a day habit and a vape pen is still a smoker. A fossil fueled power grid is still a fossil fueled power grid even with supplemental wind energy.
At this moment 44% of my electricity is generated by gas. That's better than 100% coal, but it won't save the world.