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U.S. Pledge To Triple Global Nuclear Energy By 2050 (www.huffpost.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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When I first read the titile, I thought that the US is going to have to build A LOT to triple global production. Then it occured to me that the author means the US is pledging to make deals and agreements which enable other countries to build their own. Sometimes I think the US thinks too much of itself and that's also very much part of American branding.

Where are my renewable bros at? Tell me this is bad.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That was obviously tongue-in-cheek pointing out the flaw in saying "let's just cut usage." A majority of industry uses that energy to support the human population. You can't just cut it off. It's an untenable solution just like reducing the population to 100 million.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

A lot of industry is completely superfluous, as seen by amazon overproducing and then dumping islands worth of material into landfills when they don't sell. Some things obviously still need to be made but we could stop producing 99% of stuff and be way better off for it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you see the junk mail circulating through the US postal system as superfluous?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Obviously.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago

That is also true. But the reason that shit exists is because of capitalism. Someone makes money from polluting for no other reason. The only way to fix that problem is changing our society to something that doesn't allow random dick heads like musk or bezos to profit off of consumption.