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Extreme Moderate's avatar

Good for her! And good for her new nuclear activism. Not only would nuclear be a very fast path to arresting climate change, it would have geopolitical benefits too.

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Wayne Karol's avatar

"We need to come to terms with the fact that fossil fuels both have us a high quality of life and did damage to the planet." Exactly! I'd analogize it to the sort of coping mechanism that once once helped an abused child survive (the poverty that most of us lived in before we started burning coal and oil was pretty horrible), but as an adult it's doing you more harm than good and you need to stop. We can understand the need to change our ways without beating ourselves up for our past.

The belief that the planet was an eco-paradise before humans (or Western humans) desecrated it is just another version of the Garden of Eden myth. We need to stop confining evolution to lab and textbook and start using it to understand the real world.

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