Dear Greenpeace - Drop your opposition to nuclear
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- čas přidán 27. 08. 2023
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I’m Ia, an 18 year old school striker from Sweden. Today I am launching the campaign #DearGreenpeace with WePlanet demanding Greenpeace drop their opposition to nuclear energy & support young people in securing their future. Here's why nuclear gives me hope for a better future.
At 13 I became an environmental activist following in the footsteps of Greta Thunberg striking in front of my local city hall. Like so many school strikers, I was desperate to see change & scared for my future.
Then something amazing happened, the movement blew up, we were millions strong on the streets across the globe, the call to action sounded, it was power! But nothing changed.
I watched friend after friend slip deeper into apathy and anxiety. We needed solutions.
I searched for solutions but when I turned to older people that were joining the movement, they talked about subsistence farming & living with nature.
From my years growing up in Kenya, I knew this was not the solution they thought it to be. It equaled suffering.
I was born dangerously premature & the modern society I was born into in Sweden allowed me to survive. I knew that many in developing communities weren't so lucky. We had to embrace modernity & reject a return to the past.
I continued to look for solutions, eventually finding nuclear.
Apart from basics at school & hints of negativity from media, I hadn't heard much about. I came to discover not only had it helped Sweden reduce it's emissions but it provided the power to save my young life.
Nuclear energy provides plentiful cheap & green energy for 32 countries globally, unlocking so much of our modern sustainable world.
So at 16 I joined the pro nuclear movement & it was life changing. Here was a group of people just as afraid for the future as me, but with an actual, concrete, achievable solution, it wasn’t just buzzwords like “change the system” where no one could agree on what it meant.
It was a life changing experience, going from the anxiety and desperation of movements like Fridays for Future to the hope and realism of the pro nuclear environmental movement. It was doable, and it was sustainable, not just for the planet, but for humanity.
Join me in embracing nuclear energy & calling on Greenpeace to drop their opposition to this vital #ClimateCrisis solution.
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This is amazing! Well done standing up for nuclear!
@utoobeizkaka2737
Gen 4 reactors consume HLNW, instead of producing them.
You are the uninformed here.
@@utoobeizkaka2737 and even if you won't use fast breeder reactors to burn HLNW, you will still generate less hazardous waste per energy produced than we're currently generating with fossil fuels
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She's absolutely right! The benefits of using nuclear power outweighs the presumed risks from the past, because research and development on sustainable nuclear power hasn't stopped. So many risks are being mitigated.
No she isn't. She'll be "right" only when she realizes the entire "fossil fuels are bad" movement is also a grift.
I am standing behind your campaign. Nuclear is the future without a doubt. The people who are against it don't have a clue how a milestone in energy innovation it is, we can't abandon the future just because a few don't understand the physics behind it. We need to find solutions not abolish one of humans greatest achievements. The only other option to create enough energy is by burning coal and oil, wind and sun energy are a big leap forward but aren't enough.
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Finally someone making sense! Go Ia!! Nuclear has power to save the world 🌍
Thank you!
Support this so much subt!
@utoobeizkaka2737 We should work on methods to burn it up ( some development is done for the Copenhagen Atomics Waste Burner, a very early concept is the Dual Fluid Reactor ).
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The total amount of nuclear waste generated by all nuclear reactors from 1954 to 2016 is 390,000 tons, which sounds like a lot, but that entire volume could fit in the pool outside the washington Monument or a few Olympic sized swimming pools.
Of that 390,000 tons, only 1% is High Level Waste, which poses the real danger. Of the leftover intermediate and low level waste, two-thirds are in storage, and one third has been reprocessed into more nuclear fuel.
Would you rather deal hundreds of billions of tons of carbon emissions or 3900 tons of high-level waste that gets fused into glass beads so it can never escape then placed into a thick solid steel cask that is lowered into solid granite (which is not water permeable, so no ground water contamination if it gets through the glass and cask which will never happen) then is backfilled with some of the strongest concrete ever made kilometers under a mountain in a region that has no earthquakes.
Yes we need both nuclear AND renewable energies to fight fossil fuels
Go Ia!
@@utoobeizkaka2737 We should work on methods to burn it up ( some development is done for the Copenhagen Atomics Waste Burner, a very early concept is the Dual Fluid Reactor ).
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Excellent initiative, it is time that well informed young generation express their point of view about energy, ecology and science and help greenpeace to move in the 21st century : supporting nuclear energy and fighting fossils fuels. Hats off!
We should work on methods to burn it up ( some development is done for the Copenhagen Atomics Waste Burner, a very early concept is the Dual Fluid Reactor ).@@utoobeizkaka2737
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I totally agree on this one.
Another environmental activist, oh no.
Thats what i was thinking.
But this one was saying sense.
People are scared for nuclear energy but its just the best sollution we have.
@utoobeizkaka2737 you have to drink it for us.
We will serve it as a nice tropical glowing cocktail.
Cheers!
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But makes sure they do so implementing technology that allows to recycle uranium many times over (which already exist) simultaneously reducing the metric tons of uranium that has to be extracted and discarded and it's radioactive life.
He didn’t add the cost for the unrealistically guaranteed ‘longterm’ storage of the high level waste, wich is, fair enough, not much in comparison with fossil fuel, but as it’s decay time is unimaginable, it will become a huge problem for future generations.
That in itself is not a difficult math assignment…
is this like a cute and smart gretha ?
@utoobeizkaka2737don't spam every comment please is just stupid
Gretha Thunberg was also against Germany closing their nuclear power plants, just so you know...
thats why i included the word "smart" just so you know @@migBdk
waste were never a real issue. they are minimal compared to the space available. burry them safely and it is 99.999999999999999999999999999999999999% safe.@@utoobeizkaka2737
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Let's promote an outdated, non sustainable, expensive and slow to deploy method of energy production, rather than rolling out cheap actually renewable sources! Yeah sounds like a plan /s
If renewables are so cheap, why so many subsidies?
@@adelineviccieli7132 lmao you got any idea how much fossil fuels and nuclear are subsidised?
@@frankyboy4409 Wind and solar are exclusively used for electricity generation; in the EU where I live, subsidies to electricity generation are public and under heavy scrutiny of the EU commission. So yes I know how much the different energies are subsidised. If wind and solar energy investors had to live by selling on the EU electricity market with the "same" subsidies than nuclear ot fossil fuel, no wind or solar energy would exist in the EU. The wind and solar lobby is associated with Greenpeace to ensure that supplementary EU subsidies are not determined by the contribution to global warming mitigation, but remain heavily biased in their favor.
@@adelineviccieli7132 yeah no thats plain bs from start to finish
The move behind "renewable" sources is called lobbying and marketing by big "renewable" companies who sell those sources (windmills/solar panels) to governments. For them to make profit they need to influence the publics "interest", not always for the better.