Reply #15: Exactly the fucking problem. Who cares about coal?

[TheMadMonk]

Well in fact, those who care the most are those who profit the most, and they (with their pals in the oil industry) do a fucking bang up job of keeping those profits rolling in whilst spending the absolute minimum they can get away with on shielding the public from the byproducts of their activities.

And they get away with it because our individual desire for cheap products, comfort, freedom of movement, convenience in everything we do, is greater than our shared concern for the environment.


And pray tell, exactly how is it rational to declare the best part of a metre rise in sealevels and spending trillions upon trillions of dollars nobody has on wars nobody but the warmongers want, and a flat out rejection of a proven technology, a fair price for achieving those goals?

Take just one of those trillions upon trillions of dollars. Take the best proven reactor design. Encase it in a concrete sarcophagus. Bury it. Build another 199 (or 500) on a production line over ten years. Turn off 200-1000 or more coal fired power plants. Now go and put your renewables in over the next two or three decades, coolly calmly and collectedly AND not in the middle of worldwide conflict and an ongoing escallating environmental disaster. And when you're done you can pour concrete until your heart's content decommissioning nuclear reactors with extreme prejudice.

Tell me again what's rational?