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With climate change looming, it seems so completely backwards to go back to using it again.

Is it coal miners pushing to keep their jobs? Fear of nuclear power? Is purely politically motivated, or are there genuinely people who believe coal is clean?


Edit, I will admit I was ignorant to the usage of coal nowadays.

Now I'm more depressed than when I posted this

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[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (38 children)

Why are people so against nuclear? It doesn't make any sense.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (6 children)
  • Fukushima
  • Chernobyl
  • 3-Mile Island to name a few
[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Yes yes, we know people don't understand statistics.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm looking forward to seeing your Instagram snaps once you move back to pripyat permanently. Statistics never tell the full story.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Ah yes, the clusterfuck of the 20th century is the lode stone

Also Pripyat isn't that bad.

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