• aberrate_junior_beatnik (he/him)@midwest.social
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    10 days ago

    Imagine using something dangerous to generate power or heat for a home. Something that if it leaks into your home could suffocate you overnight or explode, or that in normal use can give children respiratory issues or cause cancer. Thank goodness we’re too smart to use something like that unlike the absolute imbeciles in this comic

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      10 days ago

      Imagine if we had to move it around in such large quantities that there were thousands of kilometres of unwatched pipelines just out there, potentially leaking.

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      10 days ago

      And imagine people fight pointless wars over resources instead of using the renewables that are available for free.

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      9 days ago

      Not only that, but mining for it produces massive quantities of dangerous runoff and radioactive waste. Good thing coal doesn’t do that!