Comments by "yankee2 yankee" (@yankee2yankee216) on "VICE News" channel.

  1. Know why so much is going wrong in the US? It must be because America is the greatest country that ever existed! What else could it be?
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  2. These creeps will never be woke! They will always be BACKWARD, and need I add, HATEFUL! They don’t want the downtrodden to get up! The anti-woke position is a RACIST position. People who oppose woke culture are RACISTS.
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  3. Yeah, but what if there is a meltdown? Industry experts claim the projected lifespan of a nuclear reactor to be 80 years. Will an old reactor be as reliable as a new one? Will the reactors of the future be better maintained than current ones, which have failed several times, at far less than 80yoa? Who would want to live next to an 80yo reactor? My main message is that if we add the cost of damage done by one, single nuclear meltdown, to the other costs, I believe, nuclear energy is much too expensive to be viable! If we add the cost of replacing as much as 100 square miles of property, buildings, homes, businesses and business losses, infrastructure, healthcare costs due to radiation exposure, sums for the disruption of lives and for emotional damage to the engineering and production costs, IN FULL, as responsibility dictates, NUCLEAR ENERGY IS MUCH TOO EXPENSIVE! So how do the energy companies do it??? SIMPLE, IN THE EVENT OF A MELTDOWN, THEY LEAVE THE PEOPLE HOLDING THE BAG! That’s right, the nuclear industry DOES NOT CARRY NEARLY ENOUGH INSURANCE to cover the cost of damage they will definitely do, at some point in the future!!! See, the actual cost of a meltdown is not a part of their equation! They intend, in the event of a meltdown, to <u>shift the costs of recovery onto the victims</u>… It’s the old “externalize costs” trick, where they make the people pay their industrial costs! Does that sound viable to you?
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  4.  @jamesrafael6794  The problem is NOT what individuals do (although vehicles could be much cleaner and fewer), it is what corporations and institutions do that matters. We must live in the world that exists, even while trying to change it,. Even environmentalists NEED to use cars and planes, for example, otherwise we put ourselves at a major disadvantage, relative to an opposition that uses them. The strategy does not require that individuals martyr themselves in the name of the environment! Rather, it requires that laws and regulations be enacted, so that the entire society pulls together, to protect and preserve the environment.
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  5. I hear so many stories about corruption and other criminal behavior by police, I don’t trust ANY of them. None of them! And nobody can tell me I’m wrong!
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  6. What “woke” means, at its core, is “anti-racist.” “Anti-woke” is an euphemism for “RACIST.” Anti-woke culture is RACIST CULTURE!
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  7. Fine, if the nuclear industry guarantees that in the event of a nuclear accident, on any scale, that the company that operated the plant that melted down will compensate every single person and business harmed by the accident, for their losses, in full… That would mean REPLACING as much as 100 square miles of property, including land, buildings and infrastructure, with EQUIVALENT land, buildings, homes and infrastructure, of the claimant’s choice. It would also require replacing all business facilities, as well as compensating for business lost due to the meltdown, from the moment the accident occurs until those concerns are back to normal. There will also be healthcare costs for everybody exposed to radiation, and compensation for emotional trauma, from having their lives torn apart! The bill could come to trillions of dollars, maybe 10s of trillions. What I want to know is, DOES THE NUCLEAR INDUSTRY CARRY ENOUGH INSURANCE TO COVER THOSE COSTS? If not, why not? Could it be that the TOTAL cost of nuclear energy, including the risk of damage from a nuclear accident, WHICH IS INEVITABLE, eventually, is much too high? I say the nuclear industry must either buy enough insurance to cover the TOTAL cost of a meltdown, or shut the reactors down! If insurance is unaffordable, nuclear power is NOT VIABLE.
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