• JackbyDev
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    110 months ago

    In India alone it is estimated that 112,000 deaths per year are attributed to coal power plants. https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2017936118

    320 deaths globally is a drop in the in the coal bucket of death. It’s not worth specifically worrying about. Coal as a whole is the problem. Not the nuclear byproduct of coal.

    • @PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee
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      110 months ago

      Sure sure, but we are still pumping out isotopes of uranium and plutonium into the atmosphere. We are lucky the effects of radioactive isotopes are generally overblown then, huh?

      • JackbyDev
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        210 months ago

        🙏 I need you to listen to me extremely closely. I am not saying nuclear shit in the atmosphere is good. I never said this. I never implied this. All I’m saying is that the nuclear aspects of coal usage are a drop in the bucket in the massive pile of problems it has. I’m not saying coal is good either.