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Cake day: July 15th, 2024

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  • One more time, for those in the back:
    New types of nuclear power can’t be developed and built fast enough to help prevent the climate catastrophy. We need to (and are on track to) be carbon neutral in 20 years.
    Building new nuclear power plants is more expensive than any other form of energy.
    They hamper building renewables because they can’t be switched off quickly, which means they don’t fit into the flexible energy infrastructure that is needed to use renewables.
    They are unnecessary. Germany already replaced the power from nuclear with renewables, and are continuing to reduce coal power.
    Solar and energy storage capacity are exploding (pun not intended), and the costs are dropping through the floor right now.

    Even if nuclear power is 100% safe, it’s obsolete already.






  • This isn’t a uniquely American problem.
    All over the world, regressive parties are on the rise again.
    Basically, everyone who isn’t rich can already feel the indirect effects of climate change, and the direct effects of late stage capitalism.
    But our brains are still wired for the stone age. Instead of choosing leaders who at least acknowledge the problem, half the monkey brains choose the leader who promises that everything will be alright if we just kick out the other monkeys that look different and yell at the monkeys that want to take our toys away.