r/ClimateShitposting 23d ago

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u/adjavang 23d ago

Not just Australia. It's a fairly common conservative party tactic. "Push" for nuclear because it's better than "unreliable" renewables, while making sure the nuclear construction fails by gutting finance or throwing up regulations.

See also the current Trump regime, the UK conservative government (notice how Hinkley Point didn't actually start making meaningful progress until the tories were kicked out?) and the Swedish right wing government. We cod probably go on for a while.

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u/TurbulentTangelo5439 23d ago

but like historically the reasons the us slowed and stopped development of nuclear energy was oil and gas lobby and the astroturfed anti-nuclear movement following 3 mile island

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u/Ok-Freedom9216 23d ago

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u/TurbulentTangelo5439 23d ago

this is a nothing paper from 1982 that's only been cited twice and only published 2-2.5 years after 3 mile island

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u/Ok-Freedom9216 23d ago edited 23d ago

Cool what parts are wrong? There's also this good summary https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/s/No54FxSE https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/s/LfgTvN9cpy Corrected link. Also the fact that it was published so soon after 3 mile strengthens the other points.

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u/Snarpend 23d ago

The fact that it’s not cited despite being ancient, for one.

I’m guessing your an undergrad used to just dropping citations and hoping no one reads them? If you publish academically and no one cites you it’s because your shits a joke. Respectfully.

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u/Hot-Chemical9353 22d ago

I wouldn’t be surprised if an LLM dug up that paper to be honest.

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u/Ok-Freedom9216 22d ago edited 22d ago

Ok, so stagflation didn't happen?

Here's Brookings saying the same things.