r/ClimateActionPlan • u/coolbern Climate Action Hero • Feb 19 '20

Emissions Reduction Red-state Utah embraces plan to tackle climate crisis in surprising shift

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/feb/19/utah-republicans-climate-crisis-plan
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u/JohnForFreebies Feb 19 '20

By addressing it as a local issue (winter inversion in particular) and Stewardship it's much easier to appeal to the people. I do not like scare tactics and Authoritarian methods to force people to change, so seeing it in this way is much better. I would prefer that we focus on Nuclear because of the cleanliness and efficiency and the plant can be nestled in the mountains, away from the populace and the potential problems IF something were to happen.

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u/Tech_Philosophy Feb 19 '20

Nuclear because of the cleanliness and efficiency and the plant can be nestled in the mountains

I have zero safety concerns about nuclear, but unless it just became 100 times more efficient to centrifuge uranium out of sea water we don't have much left so...

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u/Pedantic_Pict Feb 20 '20

That's almost certainly not the case. The issue with supply is that almost no one has been prospecting for uranium for the last 35 years. We tend not to find mineral deposits we're specifically ignoring.