...matrix by which someone can appeal to putative "long term" deaths from so called "nuclear waste," that almost certainly won't happen over the real and observed deaths of 70 million people over the last ten years from dangerous fossil fuel and biomass combustion waste, air pollution. Deaths from air pollution in the last ten years represent more people than died in the Second World War. It is the equivalent of killing every man, woman and child in the UK.
There are literally hundreds of thousands of highly sophisticated papers in the scientific literature, written by highly educated scientists all over the planet on the handling of used nuclear fuels, a valuable resource for future generations when and if ignorance is overcome.
I know the value of used nuclear fuel because I've read, in the last 30 year many, many thousands of them.
People who refuse to be educated and giggle at what they learned in schools are not really capable of entering into a discussion of energy and the environment.
It's very clear that these kinds of people are opposed to opening a science book, never mind a serious scientific paper and in a very Trumpian fashion, shoot their mouths off on sujbects they know nothing about.
Yesterday, I attended a lecture by New Jersey's State Climatologist, David Robinson at the Princeton Plasma Physics Lab's Science on Saturday Series. I made a point of staying after the presentation to thank him for his positive remarks on nuclear energy in the face of so much knee jerk Pavlovian public interest that prattles on about so called "nuclear waste," while dangerous fossil fuel waste is killing 13 people every damned minute.
We are, as of this morning, at Mauna Loa, the carbon dioxide concentration on this planet is 411.02 ppm, whereas one year ago this week it was 407.25. That represents the destruction of the entire planetary atmosphere by energy wastes.
As a person who has devoted long hours of my personal time to the study of energy and the environment, I am appalled by the ignorance of people responsible, which I find to largely consisting of mindless, rote anti-nukes.
Over the years here, I've built this wonderful ignore list for people who clearly lack a shred of moral, intellectual, or scientific sophistication, because after long experience with them, it becomes clear that they are as fond of their ignorance as Donald Trump, and that there's little point in spending a minute more with them.
I clearly need to expand that list now.
I wish you a wonderful life.
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