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Vogon_Glory

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1. The last time I signed up for anti-nuclear, we got

Reply to Caribbeans (Original post)

Mon Jul 14, 2025, 07:47 AM

Monday

*Acid rain

*coal strip-mining

•oil well fracking

.ever-bigger piles of waste at coal-fired power plants

•mountain-top removal mining

•lots of polluted waterways

•lots of dead fish

•frightening increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide

•rising global temperatures that threaten a lot of agricultural land and coastal real-estate and infrastructure.

I think I’m going to pass on falling into line behind the anti-nuclear movement’s latter-day Harold Hills.

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Who Pays the Price for Nuclear's Clean Energy Promise? [View all] Caribbeans Monday OP

The last time I signed up for anti-nuclear, we got Vogon_Glory Monday #1

To be clear, it is not an either/or proposition between nuclear and fossil fuels OKIsItJustMe Monday #3

It's nice to hear from the fossil fuel industry seeking to rebrand itself as hydrogen... NNadir Monday #2