They're back to only talking about migrants.
Shout out to the farmers protesting for cheaper diesel when we had a green gov 2-3 years ago and now crying for subsidies because the dryness is killing their crops. Some real smart salt of the earth
"Ultra processed" is frankly a meaningless label in health discussions.
Raw milk is not healthier than "ultra processed" (i.e. pasteurised) milk for example. Ultra processed baby food is and should be the norm over raw, untreated baby food.
Bandcamp is owned by the biggest music licensing conglomerate in the world, how is that not corporate?
And who said they were ramping up?
What else would it imply to state that Nuclear is actively competing against coal? If they're not ramping up, then it's not an argument because they're not currently choosing new coal over nuclear.
Yes, coal plants are much easier to build than nuclear.
Which is why nuclear is not really competing against coal in the global south...
Not quite. China is planning less coal capacity but existing contracts are still being built. They're not ramping up construction afaik. https://globalenergymonitor.org/research/china-hits-brakes-coal-power-permits-constructions-remain-robust
Most countries of the global south, when faced with the option coal vs nuclear, will err toward coal due to the far lower cost and weaker infrastructure. Nuclear is simply not that attractive an option if you're a poor country.
Makes sense, my country has been struggling with this problem for a while because it's tectonically simply not stable enough. And good luck convincing geologically suited countries to take everyone's waste.
Anti, pro arguments only work in comparison to coal which is a low bar. We frankly simply have not solved the waste issue. I study chemistry and yes, the amounts are tiny, but some isotopes in waste have half lives longer than any structure we can build would last and scaling up nuclear would scale up this problem before it's solved (just like we did with greenhouse gases). Also it's objectively more expensive than any renewable source, as multiple independent studies have found.
Realistically though you should compare the waste it produces to the waste from coal plants,
Why? Nuclear is not competing against coal, it's competing against renewables
it turns out you can basically just put the spent fuel back where you found it
Can you explain what you mean by this? I study Chemistry and am from a Uranium producing country and this frankly just seems wrong.
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That's the problem though, there is no fixed definition for "Ultra processed foods" that doesn't include healthy foods. Its a label people slap onto unhealthy foods and then retroactively attempt to categorise.