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Spicy Air ☢️ (thelemmy.club)
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Nuclear is the best btw.

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[–] 6 points 4 months ago (6 children)

Yes but historically speaking, an oil fire doesn’t render the area immediately uninhabitable for thousands of years.

As long as we don’t light oil on fire constantly all over the planet and let it burn for decades, we’re gonna be fine.

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  • [–] 21 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Historically speaking, the cumulative effect of lighting oil on fire is set to make the entire planet uninhabitable, permanently.

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago*

    It won't be permanent, it'll just be noticeable in evolutionary time. Think K-T or End Permian events not the collapse of the magnetosphere. Mind you that's really bad. Like, I'm comparing this to the death of the non-avian dinosaurs and an event called the great dying, with our best case scenario being an extinction event more reminiscent of those demarking minor change in evolutionary era, it's really fucking bad. But there's reasonable hope that a small spattering of species of various types (except megafauna, we're fucked) will survive and adapt.

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  • [–] 10 points 4 months ago

    an oil fire doesn’t render the area immediately uninhabitable for thousands of years

    But the production and burning of it releases just as much radiation and causes just as much cancer. (Actually more.)

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

    Nuclear doesn't either. It's just that we're much safer (and made more scared) or radiation. We're overly cautious. It's actually been shown that a little bit more radiation than background may actually be good for you.

    (Edit: Watch this before you downvote: https://youtu.be/gzdLdNRaPKc)

    Three mile island, Fukushima, and Chernobyl are pretty much safe. (Chernobyl is slightly more dangerous, because there's the potential for hot debris, but that's unlikely at this point. If you're careful, it's safe. If people were to live there, it'd be safe wherever they are, as they'd ensure there's no hot objects.) The last reactor at Chernobyl shut down in 2000, meaning they were working there and operating it for decades safely after the disaster. Three mile Island was operating until 2019 safely, and since there have been plans made to bring it back online.

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