• SigmarStern@discuss.tchncs.de
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    11 months ago

    When I was a kid, Chernobyl happened. We weren’t that far away and although I was very little I still remember the fear and uncertainty in my parent’s faces. The following years were marked by research about what we can no longer eat, where our food comes from, etc

    I also remember the fights about where to store nuclear waste.

    I don’t want to burn coal. I am pretty upset about what happened to our clean energy plans. But I will also never trust nuclear again. And I think, so do many in my generation.

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      11 months ago

      Sorry but this sounds like: A car crashed when I was young because the driver was drunk. I will never trust a car again.

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        11 months ago

        …Which is a perfectly normal thing to feel. Car crash happended that affected them, now they try to avoid cars.

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          11 months ago

          It’s emotions, not logic. Especially to protest the existence of cars and trying to rid the world of them. In exchange for, say, horses which would kill even more people. All because of a drunk driver (better analogy would be a drunk driver that had a blow device but managed to bypass it).

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            11 months ago

            Yeah, and? Are you discounting how powerful emotions can be versus logic? There’s an entire industry (psychology) around this and they still haven’t solved it.

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              11 months ago

              That’s the thing. When it comes to nuclear they think it’s logic, when in reality it’s emotion.