Did you know that global average temperatures are the highest they've been in 125,000 years, and temperatures are rising more than 20x faster than natural rates of global warming. Also the oceans are 30% more acidic, and the world's land ice is melting at a rate of like 660 billion tons per year. There's probably around 7% more water vapor in the atmosphere because warmer air holds more moisture and warmer water evaporates more quickly. Fire seasons are getting longer and more intense. Etc etc

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bko an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Did you know that US produces 30% less carbon than it did in 2004? Even when adjusted for trade, carbon emissions continue to trend down since the early 2000s (absolute terms, not even per capita)

https://ourworldindata.org/profile/co2/united-states

https://ourworldindata.org/consumption-based-co2

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WarmWash 15 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Imagine we focused this anti-DC energy on things that actually have material impacts, like meat consumption and air conditioning.

I'd imagine it's something like each American eating half as many cheeseburgers a year would offset all current and projected emissions from DC energy usage.

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betterunix2 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

...so building that nuclear reactor would be a good thing since it will emit far less carbon than those natural gas generators (not to mention all the other pollution that nuclear plants do not emit). Hook the DC up to the grid and expand nuclear power to simultaneously accommodate the load and decommission fossil fuel plants. Wins all around.

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pjc50 an hour ago | parent [-]

OK, fine, but the DC construction cannot start until the nuclear plant is online.

(now you have two planning permission problems!)

	▲	betterunix2 40 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Indeed and frankly we are way behind schedule on building nuclear plants, mostly because of irrational fears about nuclear power safety.

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MSFT_Edging an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

But what about this guy's small town with a population of under 10k????????

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PorciiVorbesc an hour ago | parent [-]

Put your money where your mouth is.

You go first sacrifice yourself, the finances of your family and your town, in order to save the global environment, to set an example, and we'll start to follow your lead when we'll see that your sacrifice has improved the global environment.

It's always convenient for you when someone else has to make sacrifices to their job security, housing, financial future, and comfort in order to save the environment, when you get to enjoy all the perks of their sacrifice, without needing to make any equivalent sacrifices yourself.

	▲	qlte 44 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Seems like this can go both ways. You should volunteer to have a bank of loud, polluting turbines from obsolete passenger jets running 24/7 next to your home so Meta can serve GenAI ads with 5% lower latency.