▲ | mpweiher 2 days ago | |
> I will use the "rabid" replies I got... All the replies other than yours have politely pointed out that you were incorrect. > >Radiophobia > I do not have this issue, The definition says: "...leading to overestimating the health risks of radiation compared to other risks." That looks exactly like what you are doing. > I think you should be ashamed of yourselves for denying the pain and suffering of so many people "for a greater purpose". Nobody here has done that...with possibly one exception. You are denying the pain and suffering of the people who suffer due to us not adopting more nuclear power. For what "higher purpose" this should be I can't fathom. The adoption of nuclear power had saved an estimated 1.8 million lives by 2011. https://www.giss.nasa.gov/pubs/abs/kh05000e.html Conversely, the turning off of nuclear power plants or delaying/cancelling of new builds post Chernobyl has cost hundreds of thousands if not millions of lives. We estimate that the decline in NPP caused by Chernobyl led to the loss of approximately 141 million expected life years in the U.S., 33 in the U.K. and 318 million globally https://www.sciencespo.fr/department-economics/sites/science... A more compact read: Coal Pollution Likely Kills More People Annually Than Will Ever Die from Chernobyl Radiation https://reason.com/2016/04/26/more-deaths-from-coal-pollutio... |