...with science educations and critical thinking abilities.
The anti-nukes, in my opinion - and note there's no cut and paste here - don't give a rat's ass about climate change, the future of humanity, and the 7 million people who die each bleeping year from air pollution.
The seven million figure is reported here on page 2238 in table 3: Lancet Vol 380, pp.2224-2260 The title of the paper, written by a large international team of epidemiologists and medical professionals is: "A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010."
Despite many insipid statements about "risk" from people who can't do math, nowhere on the list of 67 factors is exposure to nuclear power operations.
An anti-nuke talking about "risk" is rather like the Pope discussing the merits of different brands of condoms.
By contrast with the absence of nuclear power with the 67 major health factors discussed in the Lancet report, fossil fuels - which anti-nukes couldn't care less about arresting - kill 3.2 million people per year, "renewable" biomass, another 3.4 million, and ozone, about 150,000, which rounds up to around 7 million. That means that every 7 or 8 years, as many people are killed by anti-nuke ignorance as died in World War II.
The difference between people who support the life saving nuclear technology and those who hate it despite knowing nothing at all about it, is that, well, the supporters know what they're talking about, whereas anti-nukes merely repeat sloganeering nonsense year after year, decade after decade, this while the planet dies.
We squandered 1.8 trillion bucks in the last decade on insipid renewable energy scams, and have nothing to show for it. Nothing, except glib glee from the squad of bourgeois consumers who are behind this tragic waste, cheering for it, who couldn't care less about future generations.
For 1.8 trillion bucks we could have given every man, woman and child in India around $1200 bucks, nearly doubling their per capita income.
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