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[–] Tiresia@slrpnk.net 49 points 1 month ago (14 children)

These monuments are some of the most blatant fossil fuel propaganda to hit the mainstream.

Oh no, nuclear is so scary, we have to warn our possible descendants 100,000 years in the future even if all cultural continuity is lost because we care so much for the distant future. Climate change? Oh don't worry, it's just your grandchildren and everybody after them that will have to live through a mass extinction event, you have nothing to worry about.

Nuclear waste? Well, sure, you could keep it perfectly safe by putting it on a grate in a bathtub, but that would require maintenance once every decade or so, and that's just not acceptable. Now by law you have to bury it in a geologically inactive region where it can be guaranteed to not leak in the slightest for the next million years without any human intervention. Leaded gasoline and car exhaust made half the population angry xenophobes and kills hundreds of thousands of people per year? Cost of doing business, I'm afraid.

[–] binary45@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Not to mention that the nuclear fuel can be recycled, albeit with some loss, but (at least in the USA) you’re legally not allowed to do that.

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Because they need that byproduct for the bombs.

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