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10. I've been making the same arguments for several decades.

I worked to come to my conclusions, and I stand by them.

For all those decades I've been hearing - it really doesn't matter which anti-nuke has been offering this repeated nonsense - the same shit, "solar prices are going down, they're cheap, blah, blah, blah, soothsaying, soothsaying, soothsaying.

It's always about some magical thing that just about to happen to make this sick obsessive affectation suddenly effective.

It's been a broken record from generic asshole anti-nukes for decades, here and elsewhere. Do you know when the antinuke Harvey Wasserman wrote the dumb shit book "Solartopia!" that has all the same chants we hear here day after day, year after year, decade after decade while the world burns?

It was in 2006. It is based on anti-nuke chants that sick bourgeois consumer old fart had been repeating since the 1970's.

The antinukes show up here in series, sometimes accompanied by hydrogen morons or battery morons as if the laws of thermodynamics were subject to wishful thinking. (They're not.)

In 2006, when "Solartopia" was predicted "by 2030," the concentration of the dangerous fossil fuel waste carbon dioxide in the planetary atmosphere was 384.45 ppm, the week beginning April 2, 2006.

Here, again, is the result, the one I care about, the one that matters to me:

April 05: 422.69 ppm
April 04: 422.74 ppm
April 03: 422.74 ppm
April 02: 422.54 ppm
April 01: 421.91 ppm
Last Updated: April 6, 2023

Recent Daily Average Mauna Loa CO2

It's the one thing that antinukes never mention, climate change.

We're just shy of 40 ppm of additional carbon dioxide in the planetary atmosphere while indifferent illiterate brats carried on for 17 years about a "solartopia" "by 2030" the whole fucking time.

Since 2006, when "Solartopia" soothsaying was selling books, an idiot writer to idiot readers, 17 years ago, about 120 million human beings have died from air pollution, while I had to sit around and listen to vapid crap about the disposal of reactor cores that have killed no one.

The difference between "Solartopia," and the Bible is nil. Both are faith based nonsense that values prophecy over reality.

Now, as for what "we" know, I think I made my opinion clear that antinukes don't get to tell me what I know. I work very, very, very, very hard to expand on what I know and as a result, I have come to the unshakable opinion, an earned opinion, that antinukes don't know a damned useful thing. I resent being included in any kind of "we" with this sort.

Antinukes like to act as if they're intellectually capable, but they are, in my observation, rather in Dunning Kruger space. They are not even well educated enough to understand what they obviously don't know. They have clearly never opened a fucking science book, or read a serious scientific paper, or had enough of a concern to even try to do either.

I assume, that since they don't ever mention climate change in any of the soothsaying chants about what is supposed to happen in ten years, soothsaying all about money, not the environment - although the money thing doesn't pan out, the highest priced electricity in Europe is German and Danish - and simply go on repeating the same fucking chants they offered in 1980, 1990, 2000, 2010, right up to 2023, they don't give a rat's ass about climate change.

I do.

I'm an old man, and I have no use for a particular antinuke who shows up here or elsewhere to take up the chants I've heard my entire adult life.

The assholes who cheered for Germany to shut it's allegedly "too dangerous" nuclear plants because "we don't need nuclear" have zero outrage about the Germans burning coal as they have all winter. They. Just. Don't. Give. A. Fuck.

As for flat screen TV's, and other consumer junk that so impresses anti-nukes, I think I've made clear that I am far more concerned about the lives of ten year old cobalt slaves than I am about the ability to watch Seinfeld reruns on a flat screen TV.

I don't give a fuck about flat screen TVs, particularly from someone who thinks we're going to mine the fuck out of Africa so Germans can try to make enough batteries to cover a month of Dunkelflaute, which I analyzed here:

he Number of Tesla Powerwalls Required That Would Address the Current German Dunkleflaute Event.

Now.

There are people who give a shit and there are people who don't. I'm proud to have a son who gives a shit. What he is doing is not easy. It's hard. He's working his ass off to achieve excellence in Engineering. It is unjust on some level that people should have to work so hard to save the planet on which indifferent, uneducated, amoral nickel and dime types sit around in front of crystal balls without a shred of insight, but I hope I have raised him to do what is good and right to balance those who just don't give a rat's ass about the future of this planet or the people who do and will live on it.

Have a wonderful evening.