It's really sad that this late in the game we have this sort of narrow thinking, but it really doesn't matter. People who do give a shit about the future are sweeping this weak minded anti-intellectual shit aside.
Since the asshole Amory Lovins wrote this benighted piece of bullshit, Nuclear Power and Nuclear Bombs in 1980, now almost half a century ago, the death toll from air pollution has been on the order of 300 million people, over a quarter of a billion, slightly less than the population of the entire United States.
Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 (Lancet Volume 396, Issue 10258, 17–23 October 2020, Pages 1223-1249)
Are cheers for the deaths in order because we have bourgeois types complaining about the existence of "too many people?"
Anyone who complains that too many people exist, conveniently excluding themselves in 100% of the time whenever I hear this rhetoric, are surely cheering for such a death toll, are they not?
How many nuclear wars have taken place since 1980 again? As many as say, in the shit antinukes couldn't care less about, oil wars? Have nuclear wars killed as many people as antinuke ignorance? How about poverty? Have nuclear wars killed as many people as poverty? As many as climate change?
In his bourgeois moral hellhole in the resort city of Snowmass Colorado, like other people who whine about the right of other people to exist, Lovins, the original vapid asshole spreading this idiot rhetoric, has neither the intellectual strength nor the moral depth to apologize for his ignorance or its consequences.
He wants you to send him money as a form of praise, making him sort of the Donald Trump of energy and the environment.
Frankly very few antinukes give a rat's ass about how many people they kill by pushing their ignorance through the rathole of their poor educations. In this they're rather equivalent to antivaxxers, except antivaxxers couldn't possibly aspire to have such a massive death toll as is associated with antinukes.
Nuclear power saves human lives:
Prevented Mortality and Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Historical and Projected Nuclear Power (Pushker A. Kharecha* and James E. Hansen Environ. Sci. Technol., 2013, 47 (9), pp 4889–4895)
It's all rather disgusting, I think, that this weak minded shit still flies around, but people who care about things like poverty and sustainability really don't have much time for it anymore.
They're rather busy. There is a world to save.
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