Fucking kill me. Even the most ambitious push for abating the death of every fish in the ocean is plagued by anti-nuclear spooks. AOC's bill was unveiled today and it specifically says there will be zero investment in new nuclear because it "isn't renewable". While that is true, its also necessary. The claim that it isn't environmentally friendly because of the waste omits that the alternative, massive amounts of batteries for base renewable power, requires ripping up the global south for hazardous material. It's not much better, and real people are going to be getting cancer and dying from it in real time, they just happen to all be from places like Africa! To contrast, the hazard of nuclear waste is VERY MANAGEABLE if the political will is there to do it.
"Green New Deal" revealed, no nuclear power
Nuclear power 100% under state control is the only realistic power production tool we have. So-called ecologists calling for nuclear plants to be dismantled are useful idiots of capital.
The problem with nostalgia for the New Deal (obviously discounting any critiques to the left of Kenysian/Social Democratic ones) is that it wasn't a particularly coherent economic strategy to begin with.
The fact that it occupies a cultural cornerstone of liberal/progressive thought when it was basically a hodgepodge of unconnected work programs and infrastructure spending means that any attempt to replicate and modernise it is going to be a mess, unless there's a real DemSoc/SocDem national economic strategy behind it (which AOC, and probably even Bernie, doesn't have).
Solar energy isn't renewable, once the heat death of the universe occurs there will be absolutely no sunlight.
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Actually my OP was wrong. They don't just say they want to not invest anything into nuclear. They said they want to decommission every nuclear plant in 10 years.
Lol what's the point in using nuclear energy? Nuclear materials will run out in like 1000 years and THEN what will we do???
If we go nuclear now, that dramatically cuts carbon emission. While we fix that problem we can transition from nuclear to other energy sources. It's not a permanent solution so much as a stop-gap.
By then we'll be an inter-solar socialist federation fam.