2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: A Tweet from Naomi Klein [View all]NNadir
(33,512 posts)...is more of the same, which is failing big time.
We spent two trillion dollars in the last 10 years on so called "renewable energy," tore up huge sections of China to isolate exotic metals, including extremely toxic cadmium - 10% of Southern China's rice crop is now badly contaminated with this metal - and so called "renewable energy" in the form of solar and wind does not produce 5 of the 560 exajoules of energy humanity consumes each year.
2015 was recorded - once the data is finalized - as either the worst year ever observed for increases in carbon dioxide, or the second worst.
Bernie Sanders' State - which did not dump a single molecule of carbon dioxide to generate electricity for decades - now is dependent on electricity provided by dangerous natural gas.
To suggest that Bernie Sanders will learn enough epidemiology, chemistry, physics and engineering knowledge to adjudge nuclear energy in a realistic and fair way is absurd. Nothing in his career shows any level of having a clue on this topic.
Nuclear energy need not be perfect, without risk, and without cost to be superior to everything else. It only needs to be superior to everything else, which it is.
The efforts on the left to deny these simple facts is our creationism frankly. We are making the situation worse, not better.