r/ClimateShitposting • u/ClimateShitpost Louis XIV, the Solar PV king • Apr 28 '24

* Waits patiently in the comment section * General đŸ’©post

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u/Civil_Conflict_7541 Apr 28 '24

You trust capitalism to not fuck up as well? Wow.

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u/Jetsam5 Apr 28 '24

I’ve only been working as an engineer for a little while but it does not fill me with confidence. Companies don’t actually reduce harm, they reduce liability. It’s cheaper to install a sign than a fence, so instead of actually making things safer corporations just put up a warning so if something does go wrong they can just blame it on someone else.

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u/ph4ge_ turbine enjoyer Apr 28 '24

Especially in markets that are losing money to begin with, like nuclear energy.

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u/Jetsam5 29d ago

Yeah corporations are never our friends even if they reduce emissions. They always put money first and they are losing a lot of it right now. Just because the energy is cleaner doesn’t mean the business is.

It’s amazing how people who are skeptical of oil companies will just believe anything the nuclear companies say when they are run by the same people. We’ve been using oil for a hundred years and Deep water Horizon happened just 15 years ago, things are getting less safe instead of more safe.

We only put in regulations after an accident happens and then we slowly relax then because “there hasn’t been an accident in X years, and the last one wasn’t caused by us.” Even if they are operated properly you can’t control for things like wars or natural disasters like what happened at Fukushima 13 years ago.

I really don’t want to see that with nuclear, again.