...19,000 people will die needlessly from air pollution.
A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 (Lancet 2012, 380, 2224–60: For air pollution mortality figures see Table 3, page 2238 and the text on page 2240.)
No where in this comprehensive list of the major sources of death and disability on this planet, does nuclear energy appear as a threat comparable to, say, the lack of sanitation.
The usual anti-nuke assholes will line up cheering for any and all delays on any and all nuclear plants at any and all times.
They will shout their stupid refrain that "nuclear energy is too expensive" and "it takes too long" without any explanation of the fact that using technology from the 1960's and 1970's the world built 440 nuclear power plants in countries still enjoying some of the lowest electricity rates in the world.
Their schtick is that what has already occurred is impossible. Fortunately, in better educated countries - China comes to mind - they are happily building nuclear power plants at an accelerating rate, and they don't give a shit what ignorant Westerners think.
The ignoramauses here will burn oil and coal and gas which kills every time it's used to prattle on stupidly about Fukushima and Chernobyl, while 19,000 people die each day from air pollution. They will spew hopeful fifty year old failed rhetoric about so called "renewable energy" - which is not in fact, renewable - while the world burns more and more and more and more dangerous fossil fuels. There scheme didn't work, it isn't working and it won't work, but as their indifference to the 7 million air pollution dead shows, they've never, not once, in their useless and toxic lives, been troubled by reality.
There is no hell deep enough, hot enough, cruel enough to absolve them of the consequences of their fear and ignorance. Future generations, should they survive this ignorance of their forbearers will not forgive them, nor should they.
Have a nice weekend.
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