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thucythucy

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8. Again with the "trillions of dollars."
Thu Jul 28, 2022, 10:07 AM
Jul 2022

I sure would like to see a source for that.

To recap from my last post:

US annual GDP is roughly 25 trillion. This has fluctuated some in recent years due to Covid and other factors, but that's a good ball park figure.

By "trillions" I assume you mean at least two trillion dollars. So we've spent the equivalent of at least 8% of our annual GDP on wind and solar? Is that the accumulated cost world-wide for what, the last 25 years? Or is that only the US?

So you're "disgusted" with "a certain mentality," believing that people with whom you disagree "don't give a flying fuck" about climate change. I suppose one could argue that the proponents of nuclear power "don't give a flying fuck" about the hundreds of thousands of people displaced by the disaster at Fukushima or the potential for similar disasters world-wide. I personally wouldn't make such an argument, which strikes me as pure ad hominem.

And why the scare quotes around "cleanup." You're implying that the necessity of a cleanup there is somehow not real?

Yes, climate change is real and the figures are frightening. But your assumption that people who aren't rah rah nuclear simply don't care about the issue seems to me way off the mark.

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