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NNadir

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2. It's from me. I strongly oppose fossil fuel dependent, mass and land intensive...
Sun May 10, 2026, 11:57 AM
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...so called "renewable energy," since, unlike the modern members of the Sierra Club, who never see a wilderness they don't wish to convert to an industrial park for solar and wind, my environmental views are consistent with those of the Sierra Club's founder John Muir, who founded the Club in a failed attempt to prevent industrialization of a natural wilderness, the Hetch Hetchy valley in Yosemite National Park, now a hydroelectric plant.

Nuclear energy is the only form of energy I regard as clean and sustainable


I know this view is unpopular in some circles here, but I unrepentantly hold this view based on roughly 40 years of consideration ever since the Chornobyl reactor exploded, establishing nuclear's worst case.

Thanks for asking.

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