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40% of US electricity is now emissions-free (arstechnica.com)
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[โ€“] frezik@midwest.social 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nonsense. Conservatives have brought up nuclear for decades as a way to play "gotcha" with anti-nuclear progressives. Maggie Thatcher, for example, embraced the science of climate change early on as a way to push nuclear. It was never serious, though. Always a political game that resulted in no new nuclear being built while coal and oil continued to ramp up.

[โ€“] CrimeDad@lemmy.crimedad.work 3 points 1 year ago

I think Thatcher just wanted to privatize, deregulate, and liberalize as much as she could, all fundamentally bad moves from the perspectives of both labor and greenhouse emissions concerns.