• ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It’s almost like many things operate exactly like that but don’t have people spreading disinformation or fearmongering to the point where people are so pants shittingly terrified of them they won’t even consider it.

    • TheBaldFox@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Yeah, fossil fuel companies have spent the last 70 years propagandizing against nuclear because it’s their largest threat.

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        1 year ago

        Sure, but hopefully you have no trouble believing that simultaneously, nuclear power companies and governments wanting to use nuclear, despite the risks, have been propagandizing for nuclear.

        Pro-nuclear folks are often completely unaccepting of there being risks and externalized costs, which feels to me like they’re subject to propaganda (notwithstanding that I’m likely subject to different propaganda).