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Cake day: June 20th, 2023

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  • This is not what happened. Takes like this, that oversimplify and make things seem inevitable aren’t very helpful.

    For decades before 1988 and for decades after, people have advocated for the environment. The shift to an understanding that we can have an impact on our planet has been slow and hard-won. Don’t pretend like one person or one hearing or one technology could have prevented all this - that’s just not true.

    You may be upset that nuclear wasn’t or isn’t used more, but it doesn’t really matter at this point - we are here, and we have really inexpensive and seemingly low impact technologies like solar and wind with battery or other types of storage. Plus, we can now have a more distributed grid with installs right in people’s homes.

    Move past whatever has you hung up on nuclear, there’s lots of other ways to have a positive impact on our environmental future.





  • Sorry, but this is such fatalistic bs.

    So much has changed.

    I remember acid rain.
    I remember leaded gas.
    I remember 12mpg cars.
    I remember the photos of terrible brown smog floating over Los Angeles.
    I remember before anyone had a recycling bin.
    I remember…

    The list goes on. And I’m only a handful of decades old.

    Can we do more? Yes.
    Should we do more? Absolutely.
    Are more people aware of that than ever before? Yes.

    Humans have technologied their way out of so much shit, I am not ready to give up on us yet.