On Tue, 23 Feb 2021 09:57:55 +0000, alan_m
wrote:

On 19/02/2021 12:59, T i m wrote:

Except reactors 'built to generate electricity' *have* gone wrong or
been broken and have spewed very long living pollution across the
world.

But don't you have to balance this with risk from the deaths that are
caused by, not climate warming, nor climate change or climate crisis but
from climate catastrophe as I listened to it being described on the
radio the other day?

When comparing overall deaths from all energy sources as we have
witnessed so far, yes, but not when just comparing the 'risk' aspect
of all the energy generation sources, the ease / ability to clean up
any mess and how far reaching any damage might reach.

Like, a collapsing dam could kill many but the damage / loss death
will be local and short lasting (as in 'ongoing damage').

We know burning fossil fuels is bad for us and so forward thinking
countries are reducing such as fast as possible.

Because 'some people' can't see pollution they don't imagine it's
there (unlike the old London smogs and those still occurring in some
big cities around the world) and if they could they might consider
deeper exactly what we are doing in the very air we (all species) need
to survive. And I'm obviously not simply talking about CO2 (that
plants need to survive etc).

Re 'climate catastrophe ... with any closed loop system it can only
take a tiny nudge inside that system to make it unstable and no longer
be self maintaining.

As with Brexit, Anti Vaxers, Carnists and MM global warming /
polluting deniers there are always those who really do believe their
'side', irrespective of what their own eyes see happening around them.

But they also prefer not to see, preferring to believe all the
conspiracy theories because that's the way the coin happened to fall
when they were deciding which side to support or how it best suited
their general goals (ie, they have or do work in this industries
concerned).

*Of course* every representative of British American Tobacco insisted
their product was safe and spread propaganda trying to support that
.... why wouldn't they when they had so much to gain from it?

I wonder what drives vegans to not want to support the unnecessary
ongoing suffering and death of trillions of animals every year ... oh
hang on, I think I've just given the answer away ... ;-(

https://ibb.co/9b2Y0wk

Cheers, T i m