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Envirogal

(188 posts)
9. Nuclear plant building creates a LOT of CO2
Fri Sep 20, 2024, 11:35 AM
Sep 2024

Bad timing to accelerate building these plants while we are already accelerating towards tipping points. Carbon is a concern but this country(and even the world) is not interested in lowering carbon emissions because of our activities of what society and the tech Bros want.

Nuclear is a Carbon Trojan Horse to get in the fort. Meanwhile, Crypto and AI are demanding so much energy that there is no stopping our collapse. Conservation, population decline, and true green tech is the only way we stop this.

I will ask you the same question I asked the poster of this thread: what is the management plan for the WASTE? Believe it or not, carbon emissions is not our only problem we need to focus on here. Natural gas has “low emissions” but we all know the other problems it causes in the fracking of it (unknown chemicals being shot below surface, poisoning local waterways, higher incidences of earthquakes, etc.).

We must walk and chew gum at the same time lowering all ghg emissions, including methane. But we can’t fall into the traps that nuclear brings.

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