For the most part, this is a good, informative video about the advantages of nuclear energy.
Then, at 9:00 they talk about the danger of nuclear weapon proliferation. Obviously, this is a scary subject and requires scary footage. Guess what they chose?
Nuclear weapons test footage?
No.
Muslims praying.
Marg Bar The Economist.
wtf do Muslims have to do with nuclear weapons?
God damn it. I hate how they always have to have an other. The west needs to fix its own problems before it starts pointing at others.
The US and Israel have spent the last 30 years scaremongering about Iran and Iraq and WMDs. The Iraq invasion was predicated on it.
Not that they've done anything wrong, but it is an unsurprising take from the economist.
Behind the obvious racism hides something much worse: "We will not change the economic system. We must put more uranium on the fire until the entire planet is a bright green blob."
Nah. They're right about nuclear energy. The Soviets recognized its potential, they were just bad at it.
Maybe the technology will be developed to a harmless level in 500 years, but we don't have that time.
I'll hear you say that when they drop a bomb on a long term nuclear waste storage, or when the Marshall Islands flood. Maybe you have a different standard or "harm" but I'm happy to hear it.
I’ll hear you say that when they drop a bomb on a long term nuclear waste storage
They being...?
Like, no one would actually do this and no one who would will ever have the capacity to do so.
Does it matter? The US dropped nukes before , what would stop them from bombing a waste site?
I'm getting the sense you know absolutely nothing about nuclear energy and nuclear waste storage.
Real "opening credits of the Dawn of the Dead remake" hours
The most dangerous thing to a soulless liberal is a normal human being who is devoted to a transcendent higher power.
It's scary to me too and I am a communist. A lot of organized religions encourage people to be happy and complacent with their station in life, because only the afterlife matters. Not to mention the many archaic laws and revelations these religions still cling to that create a toxic culture of fear and oppression in the lives of billions of voiceless people in the world.
