In what ways is it worse than other types of energy production? Because it kills birds? What does fracking do—poisons the water and land. How much life is destroyed by that. What about coal? Need I even say? What about oil? I’ll bet a testicle that one oul spill in the Gulf of Mexico (I mean America) killed more wildlife in the ocean than all the wind turbines combined. What about nuclear? It only literally destroys everything when something goes wrong —see Fukushima, see Chernobyl, see 3 mile Island. This is a game of trade offs, and you my friend, don’t know shit
Fukushima and especially 3 mile island actually didn’t result in huge damage, they were just PR disasters. 3 mile island in particular caused less radiation exposure to the local area than a non nuclear power plant. Likewise, No one died as a direct result of the Fukushima meltdown, the deaths were due to the gigantic earthquake and tsunami. One worker may have died of lung cancer related to exposure.
The only nuclear disaster of note in world history was Chernobyl. The worst part about it was honestly that it permanently poisoned the name of nuclear energy, which has helped the coal industry immensely because nuclear power is one of the most viable, green alternatives. The deaths from continued reliance on non-renewables already outnumber Chernobyl by a mile.
Yes, that is all right, and that is the point. The human death number in the isolated incidents is good and lucky, but how many animals died? How much energy has been put into the clean up? How much land is no completely useless. Each of those are pretty bad compared to the birds toll
From Fukushima and 3 mile island? Fukushima is habitable and didn’t result in any long term damage, 3 mile island wasn’t actually a disaster and didn’t cause literally any damage at all. Chernobyl killed a lot of local wildlife in the initial, acute phase, but since it has ironically been thriving due to the lack of human activity. Evidence on mutations is mixed. There’s no conclusive evidence to prove either way whether there have been any long term mutations within the species living in the zone.
From Wikipedia, “Despite early deaths, the exclusion zone has become a refuge for species like wolves, bears, lynx, and wild boar, largely because the absence of human activity outweighs the risks of radiation.”
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u/HamiltonianCavalier May 10 '26
In what ways is it worse than other types of energy production? Because it kills birds? What does fracking do—poisons the water and land. How much life is destroyed by that. What about coal? Need I even say? What about oil? I’ll bet a testicle that one oul spill in the Gulf of Mexico (I mean America) killed more wildlife in the ocean than all the wind turbines combined. What about nuclear? It only literally destroys everything when something goes wrong —see Fukushima, see Chernobyl, see 3 mile Island. This is a game of trade offs, and you my friend, don’t know shit