...pollution from burning dangerous fossil fuels; and it's well reported in thousands of places that it kills 7 million people per year, about half under the age of 5, and about half from dangerous fossil fuel waste openly and clearly dumped into the atmosphere for anyone to see, and half from "renewable" biomass burning.
It's not like their hiding anything. They're very trustworthy. You can see their smokestacks running, pretty much all the time, even when the sun is shining and the wind is blowing.
How many people died from Fukushima again? Given the coal, oil and gas running the computers devoted to the internet discussions of Fukushima it must have been in the millions, no? Hundreds of thousands? Um, one thousand?
How does the number of people who died from the reactors compare to the number of people who died because buildings collapsed in the same event?
Was it 15,000 or 20,000? Who cares? They don't count. No reactors were involved.
Anyway, of course, we all trust the construction industry.
How many people died, by the way, from all the coal and oil and gas that's been burned so people who know zero about nuclear energy can announce on the internet on computers, using electricity that still depends (at levels still approaching 90%), on coal, oil and gas, that they don't "trust" the nuclear industry.
Of course, these same people absolutely "trust" the solar energy companies with the health of cadmium miners in China who make their toxic, expensive and useless products, and of course they're absolutely sure that Lanthanide miners in the Baotou province of China where wildcatters dig exhaustible metals for wind turbines are mined are monitored by the wind energy companies that suck, and suck and suck money out of the world economy without ever producing 5 exajoules of energy on a planet that consumes 560 exajoules of said energy.
I mean, those people who say that Baotou is an ecological nightmare obviously don't know how, um, trustworthy the wind companies are.
One of Baotou’s other main exports is neodymium, another rare earth with a variety of applications. Again it is used to dye glass, especially for making lasers, but perhaps its most important use is in making powerful yet lightweight magnets. Neodymium magnets are used in consumer electronics items such as in-ear headphones, cellphone microphones, and computer hard-drives. At the other end of the scale they are a vital component in large equipment that requires powerful magnetic fields, such as wind farm turbines and the motors that power the new generation of electric cars. We’re shown around a neodymium magnet factory by a guide who seems more open than our friend at the cerium plant. We’re even given some magnets to play with. But again, when our questions stray too far from applications and to production and associated environmental costs, the answers are less forthcoming, and pretty soon the visit is over.
Speaking only for myself, I can say clearly what I don't trust. I don't trust humanity to save itself. For too long it has turned the planet over to nitpicking fools with selective attention who just don't give a rat's ass for humanity.
But that's just me.
I return the audience to the class of people who would rather discuss the tuna fish with a few atoms of Fukushima cesium in a tuna fish rather than the 70 million people who died in the last ten years from air pollution.
Have a nice evening.
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