SGR

Does anyone actually take Greta seriously? She prognosticates the climate apocalypse (and presumably, it's her top concern) and opposes nuclear energy.

rubber soul

Because what happens if the nuclear plant blows up like Chernobyl? Still, no easy answers, are there?

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Anteater

Greta's gonna run out of things to whine about eventually at this rate.

A blast into a clean energy future? Scientists tout nuclear fusion breakthrough

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SGR

It's important to recognize that nuclear power reactors in use today are very different from the Soviet-design used in Chernobyl. They're much safer today.

Yes, Chernobyl was a tragedy and it could've been avoided. But to completely oppose the use of nuclear energy to reduce emissions seems short-sighted at best, and disingenuous at worst.

Nuclear power isn't the only effective avenue, but it's an important component of a larger energy approach (e.g. wind, solar, hydro, etc) that we need to utilize to mitigate problems in the future. If we completely replaced coal with nuclear (not sure if that's possible yet), we could save perhaps 3,000 lives a year (due to coal plant/mining pollution).

Are there concerns and considerations with nuclear energy? Absolutely - and Chernobyl was a sobering lesson. But if the environment and climate change are your priority, then simply dismissing nuclear energy because of an accident (caused by bad design and human error) that occurred 35 years ago seems to be an unwise position to take. Nuclear reactors are getting safer and more economically efficient with redesigns. I'm happy that Biden's administration seems to be open and perhaps even optimistic about nuclear energy.

https://www.voanews.com/a/usa_white-...s/6206602.html

For the record, I've got no ill will towards Greta personally. I think it's a good thing that she's bringing attention to climate change issues. I just disagree strongly with her position on nuclear energy and if I was a betting man, I'd bet that she becomes pro-nuclear within the next 5 years.

jadis

My read is: if you look beyond the screeching, what she represents is the EU (read Davos) consensus on climate change, and nuclear energy is not part of their profit model.

She's the platonic ideal of a European activist. She's supposed to "make us feel uncomfortable" or something with her "radical" truth bombs but ultimately the upshot is "listen to Brussels and Davos, the grownups in the room".

Lisnaholic

"Whining" according to Anteater, "screeching" according to jadis. If nothing else, Greta sure pulls the sexist tropes out into the open!

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The Batlord

Don't say that. They're proud boys.

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Anteater

She whines AND screeches actually. And best of all, she has no solutions. The memes are wonderful.

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Marie Monday

Lmao for real
You call that a wonderful meme? That's some cringy 9gag ****

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Lisnaholic

So like jadis, once you've done with laughing at a young girl for having a young girl's voice, you load her up with suppositions and expectations of your own invention, then knock her down for not meeting them.

This particular meme targets media obsession with Greta - perhaps there's another meme that shows how people on the internet like to vent their spleen at her expense.

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