10 States That Produce the Most Renewable Energy

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9. The reference is here:

Source: UNEP/Bloomberg: Global Trends in Renewable Energy.

I manually entered the figures in the bar graph in figure 8 to see how much money we've thrown at this destructive affectation since 2004 (up to 2019): It works out to 3.2633 trillion dollars, more than President Biden has wisely recommended for the improvement of all infrastructure in the entire United States.

Note that the figures do not apply to the whole 21st century, just a portion of it. The squandering continues, even as the world burns.

If anyone chooses not to credit this reference from a UN agency, that's fine with me.

Denial is a very, very, very, very popular activity these days. It kills people, but the people who engage in the killing clearly don't care.

I am not dissuaded by any denialist bullshit that anti-nukes give a rat's ass about climate change. It's very clear they don't.

They like to rant about Fukushima. Or Chernobyl. Or even Three Mile Island.

Since Fukushima - how many people died from radiation again? - more than 70 million people died from air pollution.

Again, a reference, to one of the most prominent medical journals on the planet:

It is here: Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 (Lancet Volume 396, Issue 10258, 17–23 October 2020, Pages 1223-1249). This study is a huge undertaking and the list of authors from around the world is rather long. These studies are always open sourced; and I invite people who want to carry on about Fukushima to open it and search the word "radiation." It appears once. Radon, a side product brought to the surface by fracking while we all wait for the grand so called "renewable energy" nirvana that did not come, is not here and won't come, appears however: Household radon, from the decay of natural uranium, which has been cycling through the environment ever since oxygen appeared in the Earth's atmosphere.

Here is what it says about air pollution deaths in the 2019 Global Burden of Disease Survey, if one is too busy to open it oneself because one is too busy carrying on about Fukushima:

The top five risks for attributable deaths for females were high SBP (5·25 million [95% UI 4·49–6·00] deaths, or 20·3% [17·5–22·9] of all female deaths in 2019), dietary risks (3·48 million [2·78–4·37] deaths, or 13·5% [10·8–16·7] of all female deaths in 2019), high FPG (3·09 million [2·40–3·98] deaths, or 11·9% [9·4–15·3] of all female deaths in 2019), air pollution (2·92 million [2·53–3·33] deaths or 11·3% [10·0–12·6] of all female deaths in 2019), and high BMI (2·54 million [1·68–3·56] deaths or 9·8% [6·5–13·7] of all female deaths in 2019). For males, the top five risks differed slightly. In 2019, the leading Level 2 risk factor for attributable deaths globally in males was tobacco (smoked, second-hand, and chewing), which accounted for 6·56 million (95% UI 6·02–7·10) deaths (21·4% [20·5–22·3] of all male deaths in 2019), followed by high SBP, which accounted for 5·60 million (4·90–6·29) deaths (18·2% [16·2–20·1] of all male deaths in 2019). The third largest Level 2 risk factor for attributable deaths among males in 2019 was dietary risks (4·47 million [3·65–5·45] deaths, or 14·6% [12·0–17·6] of all male deaths in 2019) followed by air pollution (ambient particulate matter and ambient ozone pollution, accounting for 3·75 million [3·31–4·24] deaths (12·2% [11·0–13·4] of all male deaths in 2019), and then high FPG (3·14 million [2·70–4·34] deaths, or 11·1% [8·9–14·1] of all male deaths in 2019).

Jim Hansen and a colleague, Dr. Kharecha (the first author) have worked the numbers, including the big, big, big bogeyman at Fukushima:

Prevented Mortality and Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Historical and Projected Nuclear Power (Pushker A. Kharecha* and James E. Hansen Environ. Sci. Technol., 2013, 47 (9), pp 4889–4895)

Antinukes and the bullshit anti-nuke rhetoric they hand out, has killed more people than antivaxxers killed in the Covid event. The daily death toll from air pollution, a side effect of the anti-nuke ignorance freak out, is higher than Covid killed on its worst day.

No amount of whining by anti-nukes will ever convince me that they give a shit. They clearly don't.

I don't make shit up; and I don't chant shit from pop websites to which I google my way. I work in the primary scientific literature. I do so because I care. And you know what? The more I've learned about something called "reality," the angrier I get.

The world is on fire. Were it not for the victory of fear and ignorance, it might not have been so.

Have a nice evening.