Jul. 15th, 2019 12:26 am
Crossroads
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novarekhttps://xenogothic.com/2019/07/14/chernobyl-and-nuclear-accelerated-collapse/
"In this way, it is blinkered to view Chernobyl as only a series about how ridiculous Soviet Communism was — especially when we consider that, in recent years, we have begun to treat our experts with just as much contempt and our labourers with just as little empathy as the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. The inconvenient truth at the heart of the series it that all state-forms are just as embarrassingly suicidal — if you give them the time and the opportunity."
But then
https://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/chernobyl-miniseries-the-good-and-bad/
"But the story was also about nuclear power, even if Mazin did not intend this. He ends up telling a very misleading story about nuclear power, and this is precisely, in my opinion, the wrong message for our time. Many scientists believe that nuclear power is necessary if we are going to prevent the worst outcomes of global warming. It is the great irony of the environmentalist movement, I would argue, that for decades they opposed nuclear power. Environmentalists contributed to the greatest threat to our environment by unfairly demonizing the safest and perhaps greenest form of energy. (A close second, by the way, is their opposition to GM crops.)"
Chernobyl isn't a new story anyway, being unable to keep pace with the extent of our mistakes is a common trait.
"In this way, it is blinkered to view Chernobyl as only a series about how ridiculous Soviet Communism was — especially when we consider that, in recent years, we have begun to treat our experts with just as much contempt and our labourers with just as little empathy as the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. The inconvenient truth at the heart of the series it that all state-forms are just as embarrassingly suicidal — if you give them the time and the opportunity."
But then
https://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/chernobyl-miniseries-the-good-and-bad/
"But the story was also about nuclear power, even if Mazin did not intend this. He ends up telling a very misleading story about nuclear power, and this is precisely, in my opinion, the wrong message for our time. Many scientists believe that nuclear power is necessary if we are going to prevent the worst outcomes of global warming. It is the great irony of the environmentalist movement, I would argue, that for decades they opposed nuclear power. Environmentalists contributed to the greatest threat to our environment by unfairly demonizing the safest and perhaps greenest form of energy. (A close second, by the way, is their opposition to GM crops.)"
Chernobyl isn't a new story anyway, being unable to keep pace with the extent of our mistakes is a common trait.
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