That is the part about energy production argument that I really don't understand. Nuclear, Solar, Wind, Geo-Thermal, Hydro are part of what I consider "green" sources of energy. Even batteries are another very important piece of that puzzle. There isn't one single source of power that is perfect in all situations. The grid needs to have power inputs from multiple different sources of power in my opinion.
Your opinion, in my opinion makes good sense. It is highly rational left brain reasoning. Nuclear produced energy’s yield, for example verses the acreage needed to produce it is dense. The resources available to produce it, like oil, will not ne exhausted on as short a time line. But besides linear left brain thinking, there is another less prized mode of thinking, the nature and product of which I believe is vital to the survival of the human race. It is a kind of knowing based on pattern recognition, experience, and feeling, a king of reasoning that is vital to keep logical thinking from going off the rails, a quiet modestly that moderates the hubris of let’s say, ‘toxic masculinity’ or pride of intellect.
There is a current, quite nonverbal and irrational, informal, not doctrinal, a gut feeling, if you will, that I have few words to categorize but can be pointed to by something expressed, or do I have heard, by Native American ethics, do nothing that can harm seven generations out. We could also maybe say, within us there is a genetically evolved predilection to love being alive that expresses itself in full bloom as the universal love of everything. It may be there to insure we instinctively protect our children.
I would call this instinct coupled with pattern recognition to be the source of powerful if irrational intransigence. So when it come to nuclear, what do people feel? If you look at the half life of nuclear materials, the corruption in corporate America, the history of nuclear accidents, the invisibility of radiation, you have a perfect target for the projection of threat. Not in my back yard. So to push for nuclear is to shovel sand against the tide. The only source that will finance it is a bought and paid for pressure by the nuclear industry financing positions with their endless hands out need to finance campaign.
It’s a real problem for sure. The left brain engineers in the AI field are in a profoundly watt hungry race to power the data centers that will have even greater linear intelligence to put us all out of jobs, so much so they want their own nuclear plants.
Did I mention that the emotional price of profound insecurity and fear in this life creates an unconscious wish to end it. We seem to be guide well along down that road, each new day more terrifying than the last. Only the fool on the hill is free.
I will post a link or refer to one I may have already posted in case you ire interested in a different way of seeing, that’s an interesting take on this matter in my opinion.
