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NNadir

(38,245 posts)
22. Um...thanks for a QED.
Sat Apr 15, 2023, 12:31 PM
Apr 2023

The thesis was antinukes, a set of bourgeois consumer types lacking in both education and in decency, give as much of a shit about human poverty as they do about climate change: Zero.

QED.

Um...um...cobalt slaves are not lying around on their fat asses thinking about building a suburban house in a tract house in a gated community with lots of cul-de-sacs from which they can drive to Nordstroms in their swell Tesla cars provided by Apartheid loving right wing billionaires.

This is what their lives involve:



From Stone to Phone MODERN DAY COBALT SLAVERY IN CONGO. (It's possible to call up thousands of these pictures in an instant, if, and only if, one gives a shit.)

It also establishes what I love to repeat: Antinukes refuse to acknowledge the laws of thermodynamics, possibly because it would involve being educated.

Other obviated corollaries:

Repeating of Amory Lovins' bullshit indifference to anyone who isn't white and living in a suburb in some wealthy neighborhood should disgust anyone having a sense of decency is still popular.

If one lacks a sense of decency, of course, one can glibly be an Amory Lovins wannabe, chanting his nearly 50 year old oblivious bullshit that left us here:

April 14: 422.97 ppm
April 13: 422.62 ppm
April 12: 423.23 ppm
April 11: 423.06 ppm
April 10: 422.29 ppm
Last Updated: April 15, 2023

Recent Daily Average Mauna Loa CO2

Where exactly are those solar heated molten salt tanks he advocated being in suburban backyards in his 1976 exercise in displaying extreme stupidity and inability to appreciate engineering?

I note that the same antinukes who successfully worked to destroy American nuclear manufacturing infrastructure so they could enjoy complaining about the cost of the Vogtle reactors, don't really give a shit about costs. What bothers them is that the Vogtle reactors would take away money that they might use to buy a bigger flat screen TV, is that the people who benefit the most from the building of this valuable infrastructure belong to the future generations about whom they couldn't give a shit.

It's pure selfishness and indifference.

No. Sense. Of. Decency. None.

Have a wonderful Saturday afternoon.

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I think as long as we can build these things we should Blues Heron Apr 2023 #1
What will save us? hunter Apr 2023 #4
I think anti solar and anti wind people are a big part of the problem Blues Heron Apr 2023 #5
There are many sorts of anti-solar and anti-wind people... hunter Apr 2023 #7
we have to live in the real world. Banning fossil fuels is not going to happen. Blues Heron Apr 2023 #9
A large part of me is still a crazy homeless guy living in a garden shed or my broken car... hunter Apr 2023 #13
This message was self-deleted by its author Brenda Apr 2023 #15
Admiration for your minimalist lifestyle Finishline42 Apr 2023 #19
I fully recognize that antinukes would love to blame poor people for existing. NNadir Apr 2023 #20
Now do Megapacks Finishline42 Apr 2023 #21
Um...thanks for a QED. NNadir Apr 2023 #22
Yep, cobalt is mainly used for EV batteries Finishline42 Apr 2023 #23
There is now, and then there are people working to make things worse. NNadir Apr 2023 #24
DQIIIIIIII said... Finishline42 Apr 2023 #25
My son is a member of the "nuclear calvary." NNadir Apr 2023 #8
Would you tear them down if you could? Cover up the solar panels and tear down the windmills? Blues Heron Apr 2023 #10
I would let them rot in place, something they do rather quickly... NNadir Apr 2023 #11
Thanks for answering Blues Heron Apr 2023 #12
Not the barb you think it is. hunter Apr 2023 #16
It wasn't meant as a barb Blues Heron Apr 2023 #17
You're not on my "ignore" list. hunter Apr 2023 #18
In this case, the cure isn't worse than the disease Fiendish Thingy Apr 2023 #2
A very fine society might be built from common materials like concrete, steel, aluminum, plastic... hunter Apr 2023 #14
So true. PoindexterOglethorpe Apr 2023 #3
Count me in. The reactionary fantasy is making things worse, not better. NNadir Apr 2023 #6
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