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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • The problem is that “both” isn’t a valid option unless a country has unlimited finances.

    Otherwise you have to decide on what’s the most feasible option and then renewables win big time

    I sometimes feel as if the current push for atomic is from the fossil-lobby as they are aware that it either works and they get 10-20 more years to sell oil until the reactors are built - and even if it doesn’t work out it still will slow down rollout of renewables

    If you have 100 billion to spend on energy producing you have to choose if you want to go all-in with one source or split it up which would move the end of fossil fuels Back further

    Not to mention having to buy the radioactive materials from dictatorships and having problems to cool down the reactors with rising temperatures and rivers running dry

    I just don’t see how atomic isn’t a huge gamble that can backfire hard (and I’m not even talking about catastrophic events like Fukushima)



  • And still some see the US constitution as this pinnacle of democracy when it’s vastly outdated by now

    Even the founding fathers anticipated a lot of reforms and for the whole thing to become obsolete quite soon but yet here we are with people worshipping them as this infallible being and weighting their words on a scale as if it’s impossible for them to be wrong











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    8 months ago

    One of the biggest fake-meat producers in Germany was a very big, purely meat-production company 20 years ago

    Now they make more money with replacements than with their meat-production just because people kept buying it.

    If enough people vote with their money it totally has an effect



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    8 months ago

    Also: politicians will only implement hard measures if a big part of the population is already undoubtedly behind them.

    They won’t severely limit meat unless a big part is already vegetarian - they won’t ban short range flights unless most people are choosing trains and busses over them already.

    They won’t take away space from cars to bikes unless people are already taking their bike and showing the problem to everyone

    Sure the whole thing about personal responsibility and the co2 footprint is intended to discourage change - but unless we start a grassroots movement including personal responsibility change won’t happen, too