Obviously she did not go back to her nuclear physics lab and re-observe the science experiments, before making this statement.
Obviously she did not return to her computer and recalculate the various economic elasticities.
She (bulimically) regurgitates what she hears, and as such, serves as a barometer.
The barometer says nuclear power plants should not be shut down.
The science has not changed.
The economics has not changed.
What has changed is the opinion of those feeding her. . . . . It’s a step in the right direction.
From the article
The Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg thinks it is wrong to switch off the still active nuclear power plants (NPP) in Germany and instead rely more on coal power. “If they’re already running, I think it would be a mistake to switch them off and turn to coal,” said the founder of the Fridays for Future movement in an interview with “ARD” talk show host Sandra Maischberger, which will be broadcast on Wednesday evening on the first . The recording of the conversation was available to the German Press Agency in advance.
Did she arrange her own fame, renting her boat to come over here? Did she have the influence to arrange for the NYTs to care whether she was taking a boat and be waiting over here to make it news?
Her parents were big in an activist movement. The media and movement no longer like what she is saying then she follows Cindy Sheehan into the same obscurity she achieved when she continued to protest Obama after Bush left.
But if man caused climate change is the existential threat to humanity that I have been told that it is, shouldn’t we be using clean energy where ever possible regardless of the costs?
It’s a waste of political capital. You can’t get away with something like Vogtle more than once in a democracy.
It would be inefficient for environmentalists to pick up the football for the most expensive energy projects possible–that take decades to show results–when they can subsidize other alternatives for a relative bargin and get results within one election cycle.
Just strange that the OP is assuming she’s being fed these things instead of coming up with her own opinions, doing her own reading. Considering the number of armchair energy and climate experts on these boards alone it seems a little tone deaf to assume she’s still simply a puppet.
This seems to be an issue with some on the right… nothing can be face value, there’s always some nefariousness leaking just below the surface… no one on the left is genuine, it would seem.
Well if you can’t see the signs,
I can’t make you see them.
Just call it instinct, like when a person has an instinct which football team is going to win, or where the fish are, and he just can’t explain it if you are dead set on thinking he’s wrong.
