Why seniors are blocking entrances to the four largest U.S. banks

[Random Boomer]

14. Thank you. Yes, this.

If you walk away from a windmill, eventually it will rust and maybe collapse on top of a wary traveller or a passing rabbit, but the damage it causes will be extremely limited.

If a nuclear power plant is abandoned in mid-operation, the result may not be Chernobyl, but I very much doubt it will be good. Nuclear power plants are only safe if the surrounding industrial/technological society is stable enough to operate them (and then eventually decommission them properly).

There is a mindset of denial and hubris that assumes our technological abilities can be sustained indefinitely. That worldview is going to be tested mightily in the coming decades. War, famine, plague, natural disasters -- or a perfect storm of all the above -- can topple a civilization. If someone can reassure me that nuclear power plants can be abandoned -- that the staff can just get up and walk out the door at a moment's notice -- without any risk of a meltdown, then I'll drop my objections.