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Nuclear is the best btw.
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Nuclear waste sounds scary because you can point to it. Fossil fuel waste is just everywhere, quietly speedrunning the atmosphere.
Just the lead in gasoline kills around 5 million people a year. That is just scratching the surface of the problems oil and gas cause.
Plus the millions of people that coal plant's smoke kill…with radiation. Coal has killed more people by radiation in the US alone than nuclear accidents all over the world, including Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings combined.
Wow, that sounds so wild to think that exposure to coal related radiation has killed way more people than every man made radiation exposure ever (if your not counting fallout from nuclear arms testing).
Hasn't gasoline been leadfree for quite a while now?
It was supposed to be phased out of regular gasoline in 2021. It will still be used in airplane fuel. It will take decades before it isn't present in large quantities though. That much lead in the environment doesn't just disappear.
A poisonous and heavy metal just spewing everywhere in the sky. And the conspiracy theorists ignore that and fall for fake bullshit.
For sure, not that I doubt things like global warming. The reality is oil and gas kill many millions every year. So much focus only on global warming is almost a red hearing when it already causes so much death.
I think the problem is, or at least one I see a lot, is that climate change is already happening, but because it's gradual and there's already so much unpredictability you can rarely just point at something specific and say "that's because of climate change." And the constant naming of it as "global warming" has done so much damage too, because now when the new weather is cold you still have skeptical conservatives saying things like "global warming my ass!"
I agree, that is why we should just point out that it kills millions every year. Even without global warming we should have moved to phase out oil and gas wherever possible several decades ago. Now is the next best time I suppose.