Environment & Energy
In reply to the discussion: The world is waking up from a long stupid slumber... [View all]NNadir
(38,125 posts)...plutonium, including its use at Nagasaki, has killed in the 80 years since its discovery, as many people as will die in the next month from air pollution.
That would be about 600,000 people.
Here is a widely cited scientific paper on risk and the related death toll:
Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 19902019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 (Lancet Volume 396, Issue 10258, 1723 October 2020, Pages 1223-1249).
It's written by a class of people called "scientists."
If there is any reference to deaths from nuclear wars, plutonium, or anything that paranoids using guilt by association fallacy, a hallmark of an inability to think clearly, I would be pleased to hear about it.
In general, though, I don't expect paranoids to read scientific papers.
Generally they're just goofs.
Nuclear scientists really don't care about these tiresome evocations of nuclear wars. Just as a solar and wind nirvana has not come, is not here, and will not come, having last been observed in the 18th century, nuclear wars are not observed.
Fossil fuel wars are observed, but nuclear wars aren't. I never hear anyone whining about plutonium insipidly giving a shit about banning gasoline because of napalm, which had killed, even by 1945, more people than plutonium ever did.
But so be it.
I'm very happy today because an idea I've explored for a long time being discussed by intelligent, well educated people.
I really don't care what people who don't qualify in this class present as "thinking."