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NNadir

(33,518 posts)
13. Um, um, um...
Thu Jul 29, 2021, 12:43 PM
Jul 2021

...about as civil as I can be when 19,000 people die every day from air pollution because we don't use nuclear energy as a result of bourgeois misinformation.

19,000 people per day is more people than have died from Covid on its worst day.

I think I made it perfectly clear that I regard anti-vax and-anti-nukes with the same brush.

There are lots and lots of people who get it, even if people cowering in corners elevating a single death from radiation over seven million per year from air pollution don't.

I support what I say with references to the scientific literature. If it upsets anyone, well I can't help that. In this country hatred of science has yet to peak.

Ignorance kills people, something brutally clear in recent times, not just with Covid, but with energy as well.

If I offend you by stating facts, you are free to ignore me.

We have a swell "ignore" button at DU.

There is no reason to read what I say, if for instance you've made up your mind up that nuclear energy is "too dangerous" but "climate change isn't "too dangerous."

Over the decades, I've heard lots of this rhetoric and yes, it offends me powerfully.

There are of course people who swear that vaccines are "too dangerous" as well, and I certainly wouldn't expect them to enjoy my writings either.

Have a nice day.

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