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NNadir

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17. Let's see, you actually believe that as you put it, that your paranoid nuclear scare stories...
Sat Nov 16, 2013, 03:05 PM
Nov 2013

Last edited Sat Nov 16, 2013, 07:22 PM - Edit history (1)

...will finally come true and millions of people will die and you're posting giggles.

Let's say that there existed a single anti-nuke on this planet who wasn't impossibly stupid - there isn't - and that their wildest fantasies came true and someone, even lots of people actually died from Fukushima.

Would giggly faces be the best response to such a tragedy? How about the 20,000 people who died in the event from things that had nothing to do with nuclear energy? Funny?

How about the approximately 400 people who will die in the next hour from air pollution?

Are you trying to represent that antinuke ignorance is respectable in this regard?

I might be wrong about this, but I believe that only a psychopath would respond with giggles if he actually believed that a million people were about to die, even if his fear was ridiculous and the result of possibly drug induced paranoia.

I believe, with the world's most prominent climate scientist, that antinuke fear and ignorance kills people, and thus is ethically repellent, but the giggles represent a real clear reification of exactly how primitive and evil this rhetoric is.

As for the very dubious claim that "everyone knows what is happening at Fukushima" this too is garbage. If that were true, people who know nothing at all wouldn't be running around making stupid claims.

The next million people who die from energy production will not die from nuclear energy - nuclear energy never has and never will killed a million people no matter who often illiterate anti-nukes hope it will. The next million people who die from energy production will die in the next four months, just like the last million people died in the last four months, from air pollution.

This is not the rhetoric of dumb giggly stoned out uneducated thugs wiping slaked lime dust dust off their greasy bandanas while blowing dope out of their useless rock caked lungs and concrete encased brains, but it is the report of a wide variety of scientists, physicians and health officials writing in one of the world's most prominent medical journals, Lancet:

http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(12)61766-8/abstract


The Lancet, Volume 380, Issue 9859, Pages 2224 - 2260, 15 December 2012 <Previous Article
doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(12)61766-8

On page 2240 of the scientific paper the authors write as follows:

Household air pollution from solid fuels accounted for 3·5 million (2·6 million to 4·4 million) deaths and 4·3% (3·4–5·3) of global DALYs in 2010 and ambient particulate matter pollution accounted for 3·1 million (2·7 million to 3·5 million) deaths and 3·1% (2·7–3·4) of global DALYs.


Now I'm sure that there are moral cripples who might be inspired to post giggly faces on the internet on reviewing this tragic information, but normal people, with well developed moral senses are more likely to be appalled.

Irrespective of the giggles and other actions of moral cripples: Ignorance kills people.

And I am sorry to report to all the very, very, very, very stupid people who lie around on their fat asses burning gas and coal to report their Fukushima fantasies, but their actions will actually kill more people than all the inventory of all the nuclear fuel ever utilized, including all which has leaked as a result of a natural disaster at Fukushima, will ever kill.

Have a nice evening.

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Frightful. nt snappyturtle Nov 2013 #1
This terrifies me GladRagDahl Nov 2013 #2
And what'll really get you madokie Nov 2013 #3
:/ GladRagDahl Nov 2013 #16
Bullshit. Nuclear energy saves lives, and all the coal and gas burned to spread paranoid NNadir Nov 2013 #4
Its pretty obvious what is happening in Fukushima today madokie Nov 2013 #5
Let's see, you actually believe that as you put it, that your paranoid nuclear scare stories... NNadir Nov 2013 #17
Yup madokie Nov 2013 #24
Fukushima in PERSPECTIVE courtesy of Berkeley Professor PamW Nov 2013 #18
We'll see won't we madokie Nov 2013 #25
We agree on one thing... PamW Nov 2013 #34
a 16 month old story from the Wall Street Journal? Bennyboy Nov 2013 #27
Muller's article is still timely... PamW Nov 2013 #33
We will see ramapo Nov 2013 #6
Always look on the bright side eh? zeemike Nov 2013 #7
"what if the Pacific is contaminated"? Thor_MN Nov 2013 #10
It is not over the top at all. zeemike Nov 2013 #11
It's OPINION PamW Nov 2013 #20
Add it up...the least of them contains 50 tons. zeemike Nov 2013 #21
It's more complicated than that... PamW Nov 2013 #31
So you are telling us you are a scientist then? zeemike Nov 2013 #36
Think about it.. PamW Nov 2013 #37
"The pool contains 1,533 fuel rod assemblies, 202 of which are fresh" kristopher Nov 2013 #42
OK - let's assume 202 are fresh. PamW Nov 2013 #43
That's the wrong "fresh" FBaggins Nov 2013 #44
Well I have to thank you because you have caused me to read up on it. zeemike Nov 2013 #45
Perspective!!! PamW Nov 2013 #19
Then why did the evacuate the place? zeemike Nov 2013 #22
You've got to be kidding... PamW Nov 2013 #32
Frankly that sounds delusional to me. zeemike Nov 2013 #35
You forgot to attack Amory Lovins. You're losing your edge. kestrel91316 Nov 2013 #9
Who is this "World's most predominate climate scientist"? MyNameGoesHere Nov 2013 #12
If you don't know who James Hansen is... caraher Nov 2013 #14
Ok. MyNameGoesHere Nov 2013 #15
I'm sure TEPCO will accept your volunteer work, then Scootaloo Nov 2013 #26
I have to finish reading this later. liberalla Nov 2013 #8
Considering the fact that we call ourselves "The Master Race", ConcernedCanuk Nov 2013 #13
Could you provide us with a little background on 'fallout researcher Christina Consolo', ... CRH Nov 2013 #23
Christina Consolo is a fucking ophthalmologist! NickB79 Nov 2013 #28
I thought she invented duct tape miyazaki Nov 2013 #29
Thats all I could find too! ... Oh Well. n/t CRH Nov 2013 #30
Mighty selective head-banging you are engaging in... kristopher Nov 2013 #40
You do have a small point there NickB79 Nov 2013 #41
is ...criticality... really a possibility? quadrature Nov 2013 #38
Criticality is NOT a possibility PamW Nov 2013 #39
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