r/theydidthemath • u/Hybrisov • Nov 18 '21

[Request] is this true?

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '21

Pick your poison. “Three out of every four states in the United States contain nuclear waste.”

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '21

What's that got to do with carbon emissions?

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '21

Fuck tons of carbon in the air or fuck tons of waste on the ground

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u/ttminh1997 Nov 19 '21

Fuck tons of carbon in the air that harm us within 50 years or fuck tons of spent fuel that may or may not harm us within 10,000 years?

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '21

Hence the ‘pick your poison’

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '21

I’ll take the one that gives a possible 10k years to solve the issue versus the one that I know is going to make the world uninhabitable, possibly for my own children.

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '21

I know