The Batlord

Don't say that. They're proud boys.

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Anteater

She whines AND screeches actually. And best of all, she has no solutions. The memes are wonderful.

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SGR

It's important to recognize that nuclear power reactors in use today are very different from the Soviet-design used in Chernobyl. They're much safer today.

Yes, Chernobyl was a tragedy and it could've been avoided. But to completely oppose the use of nuclear energy to reduce emissions seems short-sighted at best, and disingenuous at worst.

Nuclear power isn't the only effective avenue, but it's an important component of a larger energy approach (e.g. wind, solar, hydro, etc) that we need to utilize to mitigate problems in the future. If we completely replaced coal with nuclear (not sure if that's possible yet), we could save perhaps 3,000 lives a year (due to coal plant/mining pollution).

Are there concerns and considerations with nuclear energy? Absolutely - and Chernobyl was a sobering lesson. But if the environment and climate change are your priority, then simply dismissing nuclear energy because of an accident (caused by bad design and human error) that occurred 35 years ago seems to be an unwise position to take. Nuclear reactors are getting safer and more economically efficient with redesigns. I'm happy that Biden's administration seems to be open and perhaps even optimistic about nuclear energy.

https://www.voanews.com/a/usa_white-...s/6206602.html

For the record, I've got no ill will towards Greta personally. I think it's a good thing that she's bringing attention to climate change issues. I just disagree strongly with her position on nuclear energy and if I was a betting man, I'd bet that she becomes pro-nuclear within the next 5 years.

Marie Monday

Lmao for real
You call that a wonderful meme? That's some cringy 9gag ****

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Frownland

Ja it's safe to the point of not having to worry as much about a chernobyl level incident but the uranium mining process is still incredibly damaging to local environments and there's quite a bit of incentive to sell the waste for weapons.

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Lisnaholic

So like jadis, once you've done with laughing at a young girl for having a young girl's voice, you load her up with suppositions and expectations of your own invention, then knock her down for not meeting them.

This particular meme targets media obsession with Greta - perhaps there's another meme that shows how people on the internet like to vent their spleen at her expense.

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jadis

"Load her up"? No thanks!

The idea that she's the young and radical foil to Davos that ultimately redounds to its benefit is not invented by me, it's a relatively well trodden critique of her and Extinction Rebellion on the left. You're clearly too old to follow all that and it's fine, I forgive you.

Marie Monday

That is the most uncalled for ad hominem in the history of random Internet ad hominems

Also you're steering away from what I think lisna's point is. It doesn't matter if only you came up with those expectations or a bunch of other people; the question is whether she claimed to be all that, or if it's an unfair expectation from others. I don't claim to know the answer to that btw, I don't know much about her

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jadis

That has, however, the benefit of being true. He's literally too old to know what anyone talks about on here half the time

Marie Monday

Mate I don't follow many of the discussions on this forum closely but in my experience that's nonsense. And it doesn't make it less uncalled for either

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