Reply #12: As usual the pro-nuclear talking point is supposed to be that malaria is better than dysentery.

[JackRiddler]

Who cares about how bad coal is? It doesn't make nuclear better. And you want to do this in a thread about how even the Japanese TV now concedes a terrible disaster has been underway all along?

The only proper answer is to undertake the conversion -- and be it 30 or 40 years, and be it more expensive than all the damned wars for oil -- to renewable energies and ecologically sustainable modes of transport, agriculture and consumption. Beyond hydrocarbons and nuclear altogether. It's harder than any of us imagine and will take a long time. So what? It has to begin now, not when a bunch of bankers finally decide there's profit in it. Not after the oil supply collapses, or the next INEVITABLE meltdown. Anyone using this horror as an opportunity to slam coal is working for them (whether or not consciously or paid to do so -- serving them).