Bit Late In Writing This...

...but, I was furious with the UK government (noticed the little 'g' there...) and their recent budget talk about investing in nuclear power...and then having the balls to call it 'renewable energy' !

I mean....It isn't...and they know it!

Very angry about that. I did the marches, back in the early 80's, against nuclear power. My mind's not changed about it since then.

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MrAverage1965 · 61-69, M

You are right but it is not the lesser of two evils when compared to burning fossil fuels.
We can probably switch to cleaner true renewable energy in the long term but we need to reduce carbon emissions more urgently.

SammyJo · 51-55, F

@MrAverage1965 Fossil fuels were all the thing, back in the day (you're of a similar dynasty as me! Lol!) if you can remember and we had quite the high levels deep underground. People we're quite as clued in as they are these days...sure...I get it.

Bad for CO2 levels and the burning of the ozone levels, of course....which takes a long time to get anywhere near to what it once was (I think I saw some results of the reverse levels from 1970 until 2020, which was quite a long time, of course!), and nuclear waste, nobody wants it (how understandable is that?!? Wow...what a shock!) and you bury it you can't use that land for 100+ years...

Renewable energy, for me, is wind, sun and water....we have plenty of the former and the latter - not much of the middle - since we're an island, we should be able to sort that.

Nuclear really is not the answer...

SJD xx

samueltyler2 · 80-89, M

@SammyJo I argued with others in the 1960s about the overuse of oil. At that time, I was not savvy as to the climate effects, but, my point was then, that oil is not an infinite resource. The availability of shale oil, etc., has made the quantity of oil appear better, but it is still limited. The oil companies have managed to keep making money hand over fist, at the expense of both the consumer and the environment.

SammyJo · 51-55, F

@samueltyler2 Yes, not finite resources so not finite abilities to make energy.