sv1sjp@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoYoung climate activist tells Greenpeace to drop ‘old-fashioned’ anti-nuclear stancewww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square1065fedilinkarrow-up12.26Karrow-down1136
arrow-up12.12Karrow-down1external-linkYoung climate activist tells Greenpeace to drop ‘old-fashioned’ anti-nuclear stancewww.theguardian.comsv1sjp@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square1065fedilink
minus-squareJohnDClay@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up42arrow-down12·1 year agoFewer people die to nuclear than wind power. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rates-from-energy-production-per-twh Nuclear is scary because you hear about it, not because it is actually deadly.
minus-squarejabjoelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-27 months agoTo be fair, Frank falling to his death from the top of wind turbine 45 has much shorter consequences. It won’t have distant descendants dying after not working out symbols meant to not play with the glowing stuff left by the ancients. Like tragic Glowing Peril tale: https://timharford.com/2023/11/cautionary-tales-the-lethal-fallout-of-a-stolen-treasure/
Fewer people die to nuclear than wind power.
Nuclear is scary because you hear about it, not because it is actually deadly.
To be fair, Frank falling to his death from the top of wind turbine 45 has much shorter consequences.
It won’t have distant descendants dying after not working out symbols meant to not play with the glowing stuff left by the ancients.
Like tragic Glowing Peril tale: https://timharford.com/2023/11/cautionary-tales-the-lethal-fallout-of-a-stolen-treasure/