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"All the problems which had haunted capitalism," acknowledged Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm, "appeared to dissolve and disappear."
What could Marxism mean, Hobsbawm wondered, to workers "who now expected to spend their annual paid vacation on the beaches of Spain?"
In response, radical critics of capitalism shifted their focus. The problem was no longer that capitalism was causing material poverty but rather that it was destroying the environment.
It's enough to make you swear off seafood, sushi at least.
Yeah, that and Fukushima Daiichi Japan sitting there glowing in the dark sending its radiation to Monterey, CA, as two years after the disaster, contaminated water reached the shores of North America.
The cleanup is expected to take 4 decades.
They are trying to dump all the radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean right now.
It's enough to make you swear off seafood, sushi at least.
With respect to nuclear accidents, there are ca. 5000 deaths from coal mining every year in world. There have not been 5000 deaths from nuclear accidents total.
They are trying to dump all the radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean right now.
It does not exist. Many governments world wide are working on it, though.
HeadSet saysIt does not exist. Many governments world wide are working on it, though.
We built one at Livermore 60 years ago. Chinese hackers downloaded the plans from an Archive, are working on a ton of them.
It also pairs nicely with Solar.
https://steelguru.com/power/china-s-first-100mw-molten-salt-solar-plant-hits-maximum-power/542890
jazz_music saysThey are trying to dump all the radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean right now.
After World War II, the working class in developed nations become materially rich, undermining the case that only a radical, socialist transformation of society could end poverty.
"All the problems which had haunted capitalism," acknowledged Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm, "appeared to dissolve and disappear."
What could Marxism mean, Hobsbawm wondered, to workers "who now expected to spend their annual paid vacation on the beaches of Spain?"
In response, radical critics of capitalism shifted their focus. The problem was no longer that capitalism was causing material poverty but rather that it was destroying the environment.
In the 1970s and 1980s, France and Sweden proved they could decouple air and water pollution from electricity production simply by building nuclear plants, which replaced their coal and oil-burning ones.
The problem posed by the existence of nuclear energy was that it proved we didn’t need to radically reorganize society to solve environmental problems. We just needed to build nuclear plants instead of coal-burning ones.
“Even if nuclear power were clean, safe, economic, assured of ample fuel, and socially benign,” said the god head of renewables, Amory Lovins, in 1977, “it would still be unattractive because of the political implications of the kind of energy economy it would lock us into."
What kind of an energy economy would that be, exactly? A prosperous, clean, and high-energy one. “If you ask me, it'd be little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy because of what we would do with it,” explained Lovins.
"Real climate solutions," she insisted, "are ones that steer... power and control to the community level, whether through community-controlled renewable energy, local organic agriculture, or transit systems genuinely accountable to their users…"