> The tsunami that followed the Great East Japan earthquake damaged the electrical supply lines to the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant and wrecked safety infrastructure. An estimated 20,000 people were killed; another 6,000 were injured.
The implication being that those people were killed or injured by the nuclear accident, when in fact those deaths were almost entirely from the earthquake and tsunami; to date, there has been exactly one possible death due to radiation from the Fukushima meltdown, and even that we can’t confirm.
Yes, nuclear bombs are bad. But nuclear power is very, very good, and propaganda like this only serves to set us further back on the path to fighting global warming.
I looked up some basic numbers on the death toll of World War II in the Pacific theater. It seems to be in the ballpark of 30 _million_ people that died.
I think it would be fair to say that bombing a civilian city into oblivion is immoral. Unfortunately, Hiroshima and Nagasaki were not the only cases where this happened. And at the end of the day, it's killing people that's immoral, and vaporizing them with different types of bombs... well, it feels like we're starting to split hairs here, right?
It's odd to me how bad we are at sensible discourse wherever the word "nuclear" is concerned.
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[ 2.7 ms ] story [ 26.7 ms ] thread> The tsunami that followed the Great East Japan earthquake damaged the electrical supply lines to the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant and wrecked safety infrastructure. An estimated 20,000 people were killed; another 6,000 were injured.
The implication being that those people were killed or injured by the nuclear accident, when in fact those deaths were almost entirely from the earthquake and tsunami; to date, there has been exactly one possible death due to radiation from the Fukushima meltdown, and even that we can’t confirm.
Yes, nuclear bombs are bad. But nuclear power is very, very good, and propaganda like this only serves to set us further back on the path to fighting global warming.
I think it would be fair to say that bombing a civilian city into oblivion is immoral. Unfortunately, Hiroshima and Nagasaki were not the only cases where this happened. And at the end of the day, it's killing people that's immoral, and vaporizing them with different types of bombs... well, it feels like we're starting to split hairs here, right?
It's odd to me how bad we are at sensible discourse wherever the word "nuclear" is concerned.