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    Absolute Zero: "All remaining airports close" ... "All shipping declines to zero"

    Absolute Zero and the Western Holodomor
    The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 116 (15 May 2023)

    You have probably heard of "Net Zero," the unrealistically ambitious target of having no net greenhouse gas emissions by some point in the relatively near future (2030, maybe 2050 at the latest). A report filed in 2019 by the prestigious government-funded UK organization of engineers and scientists, UK FIRES (https://ukfires.org/), thinks Net Zero is not enough and is pushing for an insanely aggressive program called "Absolute Zero" (https://ukfires.org/absolute-zero/), absolutely zero emissions by 2050. What does it entail? Among other things, no flights, no container shipping, no red meat consumption, no cement, no new steel production, and no fossil fuel use for any reason, even plastics, by 2050. How do they expect this to be possible? Draconian governmental action combined with drastic semi-voluntary reductions in individual quality of life for all citizens. In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host James Lindsay reads the Executive Summary of the UK FIRES "Absolute Zero" report [(pdf file: https://newdiscourses.com/wp-content...3_20200505.pdf), hosted by Cambridge University, by the way] to expose the unworkable, catastrophic insanity of their zero-emissions program in the UK and beyond, warning that it sets the stage for a Western Holodomor.

    https://odysee.com/@newdiscourses:9/...rn-holodomor:7


    PDF file: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/bit...3_20200505.pdf



    Last edited by Occam's Banana; 05-15-2023 at 09:44 PM.
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    "All remaining airports close" ... "All shipping declines to zero" ... "Fossil fuels complete[ly] phased out" ...

    "I love it when people say that Ayn Rand's villains were too over-the-top and unrealistic." -- Michael Malice

    (I guess there won't be much for Ragnar Danneskjöld to do - they'll just do it themselves: "All shipping declines to zero")

    https://twitter.com/SovMichael/statu...69120893820935
    Last edited by Occam's Banana; 05-15-2023 at 09:24 PM.

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    "Fossil fuels complete[ly] phased out":

    Quote Originally Posted by Anti Federalist View Post
    UN calls for mass fossil fuel shutdowns to prevent 'climate time bomb'
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/un-...mate-time-bomb
    Published March 20, 2023 2:13pm EDT

    The United Nations (U.N.) published its latest climate change report Monday, which doubled down on global warming-related risks and which the intergovernmental organization dubbed a "survival guide for humanity."

    The synthesis report, assembled by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), represents the U.N.'s latest attempt to sound the alarm on the risks posed by climate change and not taking aggressive actions to halt global warming. According to the document, "unsustainable energy and land use" has caused the world to warm 1.1 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, close to the 1.5-degree emergency threshold.

    "The rate of temperature rise in the last half-century is the highest in 2,000 years," U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said in a video message Monday. "Concentrations of carbon dioxide are at their highest in at least 2 million years. The climate time bomb is ticking. But today’s IPCC report is a how-to guide to defuse the climate time bomb. It is a survival guide for humanity."

    "As it shows, the 1.5-degree limit is achievable. But it will take a quantum leap in climate action," he continued. "This report is a clarion call to massively fast-track climate efforts by every country and every sector and on every time frame. In short, our world needs climate action on all fronts, everything, everywhere, all at once."
    (bold emphasis added)
    Last edited by Occam's Banana; 05-15-2023 at 09:22 PM.

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    "All remaining airports close" ...

    https://twitter.com/ConceptualJames/...25660984279041


    [additional matter hidden to save space]
     
    Last edited by Occam's Banana; 05-15-2023 at 09:22 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Anti Federalist View Post
    There is no such thing as "zero emissions" anything.

    Just "not in my backyard" emissions.

    California to Require ‘Zero Emissions’ Passenger Trains After 2030, Freight After 2035

    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2...-freight-2035/

    JOEL B. POLLAK 28 Apr 2023

    The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has enacted new regulations that will require “zero emissions” trains to be introduced after 2030, focusing on a sector often seen as a “green” alternative to cars and trucks.

    The San Francisco Chronicle reports:

    Under the new regulations, zero-emissions models will be required for all switch, industrial and passenger locomotives built after 2030 and for all freight line locomotives built after 2035. Any non-zero emissions locomotive that is 23 years old or more will not be allowed to operate in the state past 2030.

    The regulations also require train operators to open a spending account by July 2024 that they must deposit into every year to purchase or lease cleaner diesel trains and buy zero-emissions infrastructure. Operators that generate more pollutants are required to deposit more into the spending account, and the amount required to be deposited would also increase every year.

    It is unclear how the new regulations on trains would affect interstate commerce, which is regulated by Congress under the U.S. Constitution, since many trains in California also travel through other states.

    Last August, CARB finalized regulations that ban the sale of gas-powered cars in the state after 2035. California also plans to ban diesel and gas-powered trucks by 2040, and will require all-electric trucking fleets by 2042.

    It is unclear how the state’s electrical grid will support all of the “zero emissions” vehicles demanded, since it is already struggling to provide enough electricity to charge a limited number of electric vehicles at peak demand.

    The aim is to fight climate change — not through directly affecting global climate, on which California has little impact, but to foster the development of clean technology and encourage others to follow California’s example.
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    BUMP

    I have added a New Discourses podcast video ("Absolute Zero and the Western Holodomor") to the first post in this thread.

    (I have also added "Absolute Zero" to the thread title and rearranged the content of previous posts to accommodate the change.)



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    Videos referenced in the tweet thread below [hidden to save space]:
     
    Beyond Growth opening plenary - Limits to Growth: where do we stand and where do we go from here?
    The purpose of this plenary session is to identify the main issues raised by the growth and planetary limits’ nexus that we need to address to shift our economic model.

    Chair: Philippe Lamberts - MEP and Co-President (Greens/EFA), Beyond Growth Conference organiser

    Speakers:
    - Roberta Metsola - President of the European Parliament)
    - Ursula Von der Leyen - President of the European Commission
    - Sandrine Dixson-Declève - Co-President of the Club of Rome
    - Jason Hickel - Professor, Autonomous University of Barcelona
    - Adelaïde Charlier - Climate Justice and Human Rights activist

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhoIS79tp0s



    Beyond Growth plenary 2 – Changing the goal: from GDP growth to social prosperity
    The purpose of this plenary session is to propose a redefinition of prosperity beyond the mere criticism of GDP growth. This panel aims to propose an integrated social-ecological approach to the design of a European future-fit economy, one that couples environmental transition with social well-being.

    Chair: Aurore Lalucq - MEP (S&D), Beyond Growth Conference organise

    Speakers:
    - Kate Raworth - Senior Associate, Oxford University
    - Maros Šefčovič - Vice-President of the European Commission for Interinstitutional Relations and Foresight
    - Romina Boarini - Director of the OECD WISE Centre
    - Florence Jany-Catrice - Professor, University of Lille
    - Giorgos Kallis - Professor, Autonomous University of Barcelona

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GS_aaRsBTN8

    https://twitter.com/ConceptualJames/...48411039125504
    Last edited by Occam's Banana; 05-16-2023 at 05:10 AM.

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    Believe them when they tell you ...

    Quote Originally Posted by Occam's Banana View Post
    "All remaining airports close" ... "All shipping declines to zero" ... "Fossil fuels complete[ly] phased out" ...
    "Number one: we need to stop drilling for fossil fuels completely ..."

    https://twitter.com/tomselliott/stat...05031477604352
    Last edited by Occam's Banana; 05-29-2023 at 04:31 PM.

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    https://twitter.com/elon_cousin/stat...90092760969217

    Quote Originally Posted by Swordsmyth View Post
    You only want the freedoms that will undermine the nation and lead to the destruction of liberty.

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    Believe them when they tell you ...

    Quote Originally Posted by Occam's Banana View Post
    "All remaining airports close" ... "All shipping declines to zero" ... "Fossil fuels complete[ly] phased out" ...
    https://twitter.com/backtolife_2023/...23504491921408

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    Believe them when they tell you ...

    Quote Originally Posted by Occam's Banana View Post
    "All remaining airports close" ... "All shipping declines to zero" ... "Fossil fuels complete[ly] phased out" ...
    This is What the Cruise Ship of the Future Could Look Like

    https://twitter.com/SovMichael/statu...46712033067009

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    Believe them when they tell you ...

    Quote Originally Posted by Occam's Banana View Post
    "All remaining airports close" ... "All shipping declines to zero" ... "Fossil fuels complete[ly] phased out" ...
    Quote Originally Posted by Occam's Banana View Post

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    Quote Originally Posted by Occam's Banana View Post
    ... "All shipping declines to zero" ...
    https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/04/maer...-earnings.html

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    Quote Originally Posted by Occam's Banana View Post
    I'm hearing this type of talk more and more. As people are becoming more and more aware of the inherent flaws of electric transportation, this was inevitable.

    Electric transportation can have marginally lower GHG emissions over the life of the vehicle, but you end up front-loading the carbon. So a rapid transition would mean a dramatic INCREASE in GHG emissions in the short term for the hope of a lowering over time. People are also becoming more aware of the inefficiencies of that mode of transport.

    In other words, the old propaganda is starting to fail so they have to adjust... again. As Dave Rubin often says, "The truth is a time-released pill".

    But what to do if you're afraid of the sky falling?? If EV's won't work, then maybe the answer is trains!! Socialists LOVE trains! Or bikes. Or walking. Anything but convenience. Because what you feel is convenient, they see as destructive.
    "And now that the legislators and do-gooders have so futilely inflicted so many systems upon society, may they finally end where they should have begun: May they reject all systems, and try liberty; for liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and His works." - Bastiat

    "It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere." - Voltaire

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    Quote Originally Posted by Occam's Banana View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Occam's Banana View Post
    https://twitter.com/OliLondonTV/stat...43608556457986
    //

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    https://twitter.com/LPMisesCaucus/st...46677436317795


    14 U.S. Cities Sign WEF Treaty To Ban Meat, Diary, Private Cars by 2030
    https://www.planet-today.com/2023/08...ty-to-ban.html
    Planet Today (20 August 2023)

    The WEF-infiltrated U.S. cities have formed a coalition called the “C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group” (C40).

    The C40 has established a “target” to meet the WEF’s radical depopulation goals by the year 2030.

    The C40 Cities have agreed that their residents will be forced to comply with the following list of unconstitutional rules:

    • “0 kg [of] meat consumption”
    • “0 kg [of] dairy consumption”
    • “3 new clothing items per person per year”
    • “0 private vehicles” owned
    • “1 short-haul return flight (less than 1500 km) every 3 years per person”

    Slaynews.com reports: The C40 Cities’ dystopian goals can be found in its “The Future of Urban Consumption in a 1.5°C World” report.

    The report was published in 2019 and reemphasized in 2023.

    The organization is headed and largely funded by Democrat billionaire Michael Bloomberg.

    Nearly 100 cities across the world make up the organization.

    The American city members of C40 include:

    • Austin
    • Boston
    • Chicago
    • Houston
    • Los Angeles
    • Miami
    • New Orleans
    • New York City
    • Philadelphia
    • Phoenix
    • Portland
    • San Francisco
    • Washington, D.C.
    • Seattle

    Media coverage of C40 Cities’ goals has been relatively sparse.

    However, the few media personalities and news outlets who have discussed it have reportedly been heavily attacked by the corporate “fact-checkers.”

    In a “fact check” aimed at conservative commentator Glenn Beck, AFP Fact Check claimed that the banning of meat and dairy and limits on air travel and clothing consumption were actually “not policy recommendations.”

    AFP quotes a paragraph from the original “The Future of Urban Consumption in a 1.5°C World” report, which reads:

    “This report does not advocate for the wholesale adoption of these more ambitious targets in C40 cities; rather, they are included to provide a set of reference points that cities, and other actors, can reflect on when considering different emission-reduction alternatives and long-term urban visions.”

    But this paragraph, likely included in the report as a liability in the case of pushback, seems to directly contradict the meaning of “target,” which in this context can be defined as a “desired goal.”

    The target of eliminating meat, dairy, and private vehicles by 2030 is “based on a future vision of resource-efficient production and extensive changes in consumer choices,” the report notes — something its authors clearly hope to bring about.

    If these were not their goals, they would not have labeled them “ambitious targets.”

    The “fact-checker’s” insistence that C40 Cities’ explicitly stated climate goals are somehow insincere is even more unconvincing, given that we are watching them start to unfold right now.

    This year, in lockstep with C40 Cities’ 2030 aims, New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced that the city will place caps on the amount of meat and dairy served by city institutions, such as schools and prisons.

    Meanwhile, the U.K. has banned the sale of new gas-powered vehicles after 2030, and France has banned short-haul flights “to cut carbon emissions.”

    In 2020, the World Economic Forum (which promotes C40 Cities on its website) introduced “The Great Reset,” which seeks to use the Covid pandemic as a point from which to launch a global reset of society to supposedly combat climate change.

    This reset, however, has far more to do with social control than it does with the climate.

    If globalist leaders truly cared about the environment, they wouldn’t be chartering private jets or owning massive, energy-consuming mansions on the coast in California, which, by climate fanatics’ own calculation, will soon be underwater.

    As the WEF plainly stated in a 2016 promotional video, by 2030 “You’ll own nothing, and you’ll be happy.”

    Right now, hedge funds and private billionaires are buying up residential homes and farmland all over the world.

    At the same time, unrealistic zero-emissions policies are impoverishing Westerners and annihilating the middle class, which is fueling reliance on centralized government.

    Such intentional steps backward also, ironically, harm the earth because wealthier nations are proven to have cleaner environments and put less strain on natural resources.

    Climate activists are also advocating for “climate lockdowns,” in the same way there were Covid lockdowns.

    Ideas floated for a climate lockdown have ranged from shuttering people in their homes and restricting air travel to providing a Universal Basic Income and introducing a maximum income level.

    Climate dystopianism doesn’t end there. WEF-linked “bioethicist” Dr. Matthew Liao has proposed the idea of scientists genetically modifying humans to be allergic to meat, as Slay News reported.

    Liao has also discussed shrinking the physical size of humans via eugenics or hormone injections so they consume fewer resources.

    All of these policy proposals appear even more unreasonable and illogical when we actually evaluate the data.

    According to the International Disaster Database, deaths related to extreme heat, floods, storms, and droughts have plummeted as C02 emissions have risen.

    The fossil fuel economy has provided billions of people with heating, air conditioning, weather warning systems, mass irrigation, and durable buildings.

    This isn’t to say that we shouldn’t try to limit carbon emissions.

    Environmentally friendly nuclear energy, which is safe and more reliable than wind and solar energy, is a great way to wean our society off of our reliance on fossil fuels.

    The globalist climate activists, however, oppose nuclear energy, further undermining their supposedly good intentions.

    Ultimately, the climate coalition’s goals are inherently anti-human. People generally need meat and the protein it provides to flourish.

    Banning meat and dairy, restricting calories, genetically altering the human body, and impoverishing the masses will hurt the planet and people.

    More likely than not, it will do more than hurt people — it will kill many of them.



    LINKS:


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    Quote Originally Posted by Occam's Banana View Post
    https://twitter.com/LPMisesCaucus/st...46677436317795


    14 U.S. Cities Sign WEF Treaty To Ban Meat, Diary, Private Cars by 2030
    https://www.planet-today.com/2023/08...ty-to-ban.html
    Planet Today (20 August 2023)

    The WEF-infiltrated U.S. cities have formed a coalition called the “C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group” (C40).

    The C40 has established a “target” to meet the WEF’s radical depopulation goals by the year 2030.

    The C40 Cities have agreed that their residents will be forced to comply with the following list of unconstitutional rules:

    • “0 kg [of] meat consumption”
    • “0 kg [of] dairy consumption”
    • “3 new clothing items per person per year”
    • “0 private vehicles” owned
    • “1 short-haul return flight (less than 1500 km) every 3 years per person”

    Slaynews.com reports: The C40 Cities’ dystopian goals can be found in its “The Future of Urban Consumption in a 1.5°C World” report.

    The report was published in 2019 and reemphasized in 2023.

    The organization is headed and largely funded by Democrat billionaire Michael Bloomberg.

    Nearly 100 cities across the world make up the organization.

    The American city members of C40 include:

    • Austin
    • Boston
    • Chicago
    • Houston
    • Los Angeles
    • Miami
    • New Orleans
    • New York City
    • Philadelphia
    • Phoenix
    • Portland
    • San Francisco
    • Washington, D.C.
    • Seattle

    Media coverage of C40 Cities’ goals has been relatively sparse.

    However, the few media personalities and news outlets who have discussed it have reportedly been heavily attacked by the corporate “fact-checkers.”

    In a “fact check” aimed at conservative commentator Glenn Beck, AFP Fact Check claimed that the banning of meat and dairy and limits on air travel and clothing consumption were actually “not policy recommendations.”

    AFP quotes a paragraph from the original “The Future of Urban Consumption in a 1.5°C World” report, which reads:

    “This report does not advocate for the wholesale adoption of these more ambitious targets in C40 cities; rather, they are included to provide a set of reference points that cities, and other actors, can reflect on when considering different emission-reduction alternatives and long-term urban visions.”

    But this paragraph, likely included in the report as a liability in the case of pushback, seems to directly contradict the meaning of “target,” which in this context can be defined as a “desired goal.”

    The target of eliminating meat, dairy, and private vehicles by 2030 is “based on a future vision of resource-efficient production and extensive changes in consumer choices,” the report notes — something its authors clearly hope to bring about.

    If these were not their goals, they would not have labeled them “ambitious targets.”

    The “fact-checker’s” insistence that C40 Cities’ explicitly stated climate goals are somehow insincere is even more unconvincing, given that we are watching them start to unfold right now.

    This year, in lockstep with C40 Cities’ 2030 aims, New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced that the city will place caps on the amount of meat and dairy served by city institutions, such as schools and prisons.

    Meanwhile, the U.K. has banned the sale of new gas-powered vehicles after 2030, and France has banned short-haul flights “to cut carbon emissions.”

    In 2020, the World Economic Forum (which promotes C40 Cities on its website) introduced “The Great Reset,” which seeks to use the Covid pandemic as a point from which to launch a global reset of society to supposedly combat climate change.

    This reset, however, has far more to do with social control than it does with the climate.

    If globalist leaders truly cared about the environment, they wouldn’t be chartering private jets or owning massive, energy-consuming mansions on the coast in California, which, by climate fanatics’ own calculation, will soon be underwater.

    As the WEF plainly stated in a 2016 promotional video, by 2030 “You’ll own nothing, and you’ll be happy.”

    Right now, hedge funds and private billionaires are buying up residential homes and farmland all over the world.

    At the same time, unrealistic zero-emissions policies are impoverishing Westerners and annihilating the middle class, which is fueling reliance on centralized government.

    Such intentional steps backward also, ironically, harm the earth because wealthier nations are proven to have cleaner environments and put less strain on natural resources.

    Climate activists are also advocating for “climate lockdowns,” in the same way there were Covid lockdowns.

    Ideas floated for a climate lockdown have ranged from shuttering people in their homes and restricting air travel to providing a Universal Basic Income and introducing a maximum income level.

    Climate dystopianism doesn’t end there. WEF-linked “bioethicist” Dr. Matthew Liao has proposed the idea of scientists genetically modifying humans to be allergic to meat, as Slay News reported.

    Liao has also discussed shrinking the physical size of humans via eugenics or hormone injections so they consume fewer resources.

    All of these policy proposals appear even more unreasonable and illogical when we actually evaluate the data.

    According to the International Disaster Database, deaths related to extreme heat, floods, storms, and droughts have plummeted as C02 emissions have risen.

    The fossil fuel economy has provided billions of people with heating, air conditioning, weather warning systems, mass irrigation, and durable buildings.

    This isn’t to say that we shouldn’t try to limit carbon emissions.

    Environmentally friendly nuclear energy, which is safe and more reliable than wind and solar energy, is a great way to wean our society off of our reliance on fossil fuels.

    The globalist climate activists, however, oppose nuclear energy, further undermining their supposedly good intentions.

    Ultimately, the climate coalition’s goals are inherently anti-human. People generally need meat and the protein it provides to flourish.

    Banning meat and dairy, restricting calories, genetically altering the human body, and impoverishing the masses will hurt the planet and people.

    More likely than not, it will do more than hurt people — it will kill many of them.



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    That should be fun. If it makes it to my town I’ll be sure to get right on all of that.
    Chris

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    Quote Originally Posted by Occam's Banana View Post

    Environmentally friendly nuclear energy, which is safe and more reliable than wind and solar energy, is a great way to wean our society off of our reliance on fossil fuels.

    The globalist climate activists, however, oppose nuclear energy, further undermining their supposedly good intentions.
    Good information in this thread, but after looking into nuclear:

    Price–Anderson Nuclear Industries Indemnity Act

    The Price-Anderson Nuclear Industries Indemnity Act (commonly called the Price-Anderson Act) is a United States federal law, first passed in 1957 and since renewed several times, which governs liability-related issues for all non-military nuclear facilities constructed in the United States before 2026. The main purpose of the Act is to partially compensate the nuclear industry against liability claims arising from nuclear incidents while still ensuring compensation coverage for the general public. The Act establishes a no fault insurance-type system in which the first approximately $15 billion (as of 2021) is industry-funded as described in the Act. Any claims above the $12.6 billion would be covered by a Congressional mandate to retroactively increase nuclear utility liability or would be covered by the federal government. At the time of the Act's passing, it was considered necessary as an incentive for the private production of nuclear power — this was because electric utilities viewed the available liability coverage (only $60 million) as inadequate.

    In 1978, the Act survived a constitutional challenge in the Supreme Court case Duke Power Co. v. Carolina Environmental Study Group (see below). The Act was last renewed in 2005 for a 20-year period.

    .
    .

    Criticisms

    The Price-Anderson Act has been criticized by various think tanks and environmental organizations, including Union of Concerned Scientists, Greenpeace International, Public Citizen and the Cato Institute. Public Citizen has been particularly critical of Price-Anderson; it claims that the Act understates the risks inherent in atomic power, does not require reactors to carry adequate insurance, and would therefore result in taxpayers footing most of the bill for a catastrophic accident. An analysis by economists Heyes and Heyes (1998) places the value of the government insurance subsidy at $2.3 million per reactor-year, or $237 million annually. In 2008 the Congressional Budget Office estimated the value of the subsidy at only $600,000 per reactor per year, or less than one percent of the levelized cost for new nuclear capacity. All such calculations are controversial, as they rely on the difficult assessment of extrapolating what the "true" probabilities are of a catastrophic event at the extreme cost brackets. Due to the structure of the liability immunities, as the number of nuclear plants in operation is reduced, the public liability in case of an accident goes up. However going in the other direction, the Nuclear Waste Fund was/is used to transfer $750 million in fee revenues each year from utilities to the Government and this is hard currency, unlike the conceptual insurance/indemnity Act.

    The Price-Anderson Act has been used as an example of corporate welfare by Ralph Nader.

    Price-Anderson has been criticized by many of these groups due to a portion of the Act that indemnifies Department of Energy and private contractors from nuclear incidents even in cases of gross negligence and willful misconduct (although criminal penalties would still apply). "No other government agency provides this level of taxpayer indemnification to non-government personnel". The Energy Department counters those critics by saying that the distinction is irrelevant, since the damage to the public would be the same.

    These beyond-insurance costs for worst-case scenarios are not unique to nuclear power, as hydroelectric power plants are similarly not fully insured against a catastrophic event such as the Banqiao Dam disaster, or large dam failures in general. As private insurers base dam insurance premiums on limited scenarios, major disaster insurance in this sector is likewise provided by the Government.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price%..._Indemnity_Act
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    One day it will be dangerous to be a person making those decisions.



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  29. #25
    https://twitter.com/XVanFleet/status...49091192664454
    Joseph Bast, former president and CEO of The Heartland Institute on the "climate" agenda:

    "Back in 1993, we identified 'global warming' as the mother of all environmental scare tactics…..Groups on the left understood that if you can control energy, you can control human beings...If, in fact, the combustion of fossil fuels is having a dangerous impact on climate, you have a recipe for controlling all use of fossil fuels..that’s 80/90% of all the energy...if you can control that and shut it down, you can shut down the engines of the world."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Occam's Banana View Post
    Heroes:

    https://twitter.com/CatchUpFeed/stat...59301676106225

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    Manufacturing Production Barely Rises In US For August


    https://www.thefinancialtrends.com/2...us-for-august/
    Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

    Robert Heinlein

    Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler

    Groucho Marx

    I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.

    Linus, from the Peanuts comic

    You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith

    Alexis de Torqueville

    Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
    Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it

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    Quote Originally Posted by Occam's Banana View Post
    [...]

    14 U.S. Cities Sign WEF Treaty To Ban Meat, Diary, Private Cars by 2030
    https://www.planet-today.com/2023/08...ty-to-ban.html
    Planet Today (20 August 2023)

    [...]
    Just a reminder that YOU are the carbon they want to "reduce":

    https://www.reddit.com/r/Anarcho_Cap...e_banned_from/



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    Quote Originally Posted by Occam's Banana View Post
    Just a reminder that YOU are the carbon they want to "reduce":

    https://www.reddit.com/r/Anarcho_Cap...e_banned_from/


    Meanwhile..

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