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Well, it means they're not remotely interested in solving the problem. That they'll never let a good crisis go to waste in the service of lining their pockets. That they pretty much know it's impossible to solve the problem, so they might as well use it as part of a power grab.
Doesn't mean the problem isn't real. It is. It's just that no government or coalition of government has either the will or the ability to stop it. And "guys, our great-grandchildren are probably good and fucked no matter what" isn't a message that polls well.
Liberals lie by saying they can solve it; conservatives lie by saying it isn't even real; every partisan is much more highly motivated to spread lies than face the truth.
It's easy to solve the problem. Glowing green rocks can literally be found in abundance pretty much everywhere on Earth, and give off way more energy, and less radioactivity (fun fact), than coal when processed.
Correct! The material the "scrubbers" getting coal particles out of the chimneys is actually more radioactive than the average "nuclear waste" is.
Yet it sits in open retaining ponds & such.
"Nuclear waste" is 90% not radioactive at all. Clothing, paperwork, materials that never saw an isotope are stored as such. Even the actual "core materials" are mostly harmless after just 20 years. Dental x-ray materials.
That's the whole point! If something is highly radioactive? It has a short "half-life". It degenerates rapidly into non-harmful, less radioactive materials! Rapidly!
The exception is certain plutonium isotopes which have a long half-life (comparatively) BUT degenerate into REALLY nasty isotopes that fire radiation everywhere. Ok that shit is nasty! But it's what? 0.001% of waste? And is handled completely separately, for good reason!
But never in 1M years will an Alarmist listen to facts 😣