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US Revokes Limits on Power Plants' Climate Pollution

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reactordev · 1789929782 · focus · HN ↗
Full steam ahead towards greenhouse gases, climate change, and +5degree temperatures. Why not?
1. bayindirh · 1789930779 · focus · HN ↗
  Because it'll create value.
  Value which won't bring anything to anyone. I mean, a couple of people can be more richerer, but we and them won't have a planet to spend or enjoy these theoretical riches at the end.
  So, no biggie.
  1. reactordev · 1789930867 · focus · HN ↗
    Lobbyists lies a foot. “We can’t provide more power with these pesky regulations”
  2. tosapple · 1789931197 · focus · HN ↗
    define 'climate pollution', this is all fine and well until they apply it to nuclear shielding.
    harimau777 · 1789935384 · focus · HN ↗
    I'm not clear what you mean. While nuclear waste is certainly a thing that could hurt the environment if mismanaged, impacting the climate isn't really a way that it does so. The shielding also seems like an unusual thing to focus on as opposed to the waste itself.
    tosapple · 1789936716 · focus · HN ↗
    'shielding', is applied to both the energy extraction process of fission activity AND the remnants.
    you're definitely not clear on the meaning.
    plorkyeran · 1789959341 · focus · HN ↗
    Yeah, I'm definitely not clear on what you're trying to mean. How about you actually state your point rather than vaguely alluding to something?
    tosapple · 1789968623 · focus · HN ↗
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  3. cyanydeez · 1789932903 · focus · HN ↗
    Disaster capitalism is pretty much current AI is to future AI use
  4. throw0101a · 1789946807 · focus · HN ↗
    > Because it'll create value.
    The New Yorker published Tom Toro's one-panel comic/cartoon in 2012, and here we are in 2026:
    * <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a16995" rel="nofollow">https://www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a16995

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