air pollution because some idiots somewhere think that nuclear energy and only nuclear energy needs to be perfect or that everything else can kill at will, is so morally and ethically absurd that it's well, Trumpian, in the depth of its ignorance.
I would suggest that anyone who thinks that way is bordering on criminal.
Every ten years, more people die from air pollution than died from all causes in World War II, combat, bombings, genocide, starvation.
This is fine because nuclear energy is not "perfectly safe?" Do you have any idea what you're saying? If you do, well, I don't think there's much use in even addressing you.
Before giving up on what may be a very poor excuse for a human being, let me say this though:
Now I have never met, not once, an anti-nuke who is even remotely scientifically literate. It's very clear that most of them have never opened a science book or a scientific paper in their lives.
Nevertheless, if one does read science, one can glean moral messages therein. For example Gates foundation funded an exhaustive study of the causes of human mortality and disease soliciting the input of hundreds of health care professionals and health scientists. The figures examine in fine detail what kills people.
Lancet 2012, 380, 2224–60 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
(For air pollution mortality figures see Table 3, page 2238 and the text on page 2240.)
Nuclear energy doesn't even appear on the list as a risk. If that's not as close to perfect as is possible, I don't know what is.
800 people die every hour from air pollution. Some of them are killed by lung cancer. Have you ever watched some one die from lung cancer? I have.
God you're cold!
This sort of contempt for science is one reason that an awful person like Trump can end up in the White House.
People who accept the disastrous because they seek perfection are not worthy of respect. This conversation is concluded.
Enjoy the week.
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