Which strawman is the nuclear energy lobby trying to defeat this time?

Across Europe, the median build time since the year 2000 has dragged out to almost a decade. But it’s not a problem with nuclear power per se; it’s a symptom of the west’s chronic inability to deliver large pieces of infrastructure, an ailment that affects everything from laying high-speed railway lines, to building new housing estates, to filling in potholes.

Ah, yes, the problem is all these regulations that checks notes reduce risk (increase safety):

(this safety:)

There’s also a perception that nuclear power is dangerous, yet the data show it’s as safe as wind and solar.

And

Elaborate backup systems won’t cut it, either.

Implying that nuclear energy is NOT an elaborate system is delusional.

Tim Gregory is a nuclear chemist at the UK National Nuclear Laboratory and author of Going Nuclear: How the Atom Will Save the World (Bodley Head).

Boomers

Far-right

in which case the climate is the target of attack.

The heat stress also makes CVD worse, for similar reasons.

We’ll probably learn about it from the Excess Death stats, but that also needs to be disentangled from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

A physiological approach for assessing human survivability and liveability to heat in a changing climate https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-43121-5

Proof that this isn’t just austerity, this is a war on science.

Skip cars, develop and promote trains and public transit.

Some private companies are capitalising on the crisis by actively digging new wells and extracting large amounts of public groundwater, then selling it back to city’s residents at inflated prices.

Dozens of little Nestles.

heat wave

The “wave” term is going to become useless when it becomes normal.

we have become easily distracted

De facto bourgeois, not distracted. Ignorance used as a privilege (“bliss”). It’s someone else’s problem.

…that’s just civil war with extra steps

The long shadow of “I just wanna grill” is made of wildfire smoke.

Most people don’t care or have no power.

It gets worse when you realize antivaxxers exist.

Their previous excuse was that Musk was going fund their competitors in primaries. Didn’t Musk back out recently?

Even without greed, even if these companies were non-profit, the risks would remain and the future would be uninsurable. Insurance costs need to be reduced by reducing the real risks: from not building in a tinder box to building fortified/resistant constructions. Yes, that is going to be much more expensive. That is the point too: the construction developers are grifting the buyers by selling constructions that don’t have a long-term future. People wouldn’t pay a boatload of money for temporary constructions, which is what is happening when you run the risk of storms or fires destroying your building every couple of years.

What this means is that building development needs to happen in safe places and with a high-density that reduces costs. The bourgeois lifestyle is not and can never be scaled up for the masses.

I got a hydraulic mechanical standing desk (smaller area), but I also worked with two old nightstands stacked on top of each other, with a larger chipboard board on top for which I did the edge banding.

I dont think the weather is going to be our worst problem. Its going to be ourselves.

Climate is not weather per se. Climate heating and chaos means that drinking water and food are going to become an issue; that’s while you’re taking in smoke pollution outdoors and sweltering indoors.

I’m not concerned with AI so much for the simple fact that electric grids, data centers and even chip production aren’t going to do well in a hot and chaotic climate.

Those 2050s are going to be coming sooner than expected.

The current adult generations don’t comprehend that they’re sacrificing the children’ future (and thus, the children) in order to maintain their Business As Usual lifestyle and dreams of being rich. It’s all “what about me tho?”, “it’s someone else’s problem”, “it wasn’t me!” All of this is very easy to do. It’s like stealing candy potable water from a baby.

I got a hydraulic mechanical standing desk (smaller area), but I also worked with two old nightstands stacked on top of each other, with a larger chipboard board on top for which I did the edge banding.