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Mike Shellenberger
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Don’t believe Fukushima hype

- “Natural” radiation far greater than from accident

- No harm *possible* to humans from tritium, a mildly radioactive H isotope

- Greenpeace fear-mongering hurts Japanese fishermen & the planet

Because science

@JimConca

forbes.com/sites/jamescon…
Nuclear energy

- Has *saved* 2M lives

- Just ~200 deaths *total* from *all* nuclear accidents

- 5x more people die on streets of LA in one year

- Is *inherently* safest because nuclear fuel energy dense

*Fear* of nuclear, on other hand, is deadly

forbes.com/sites/michaels…
Nuclear facts

- Pollution from living in big city increases mortality 2.8x *more* than being Chernobyl clean-up worker

- Eating normal food = 200x more radiation than from Chernobyl

- Fear & panic — spread by @Greenpeace et al. — has resulted in death & suffering
HBO’s “Chernobyl” got everything wrong

- Radiation not contagious & didn’t kill that baby

- No “suicide squad”

- Helicopter crash 6 months after accident & unrelated to radiation

- Nuclear plants *can’t* go off like bombs

Anti-nuke propaganda kills

forbes.com/sites/michaels…
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Mike Shellenberger
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Synthetic opiod overdose deaths

in 2010: 3,007

in 2018: 19,413

San Fran is on pace to *double* fentanyl deaths in 2019

Our collective failure is outrageous & unacceptable

We need far, far more aggressive action to get opiods off our streets & our people into recovery
Total drug overdose deaths in US

in 1999: 16,849

in 2017: 70,237

Context:

Total US traffic deaths in 2018: 40,000

Total US suicides 2017: 47,173

Total US deaths in Vietnam war: 58,220

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

nimh.nih.gov/health/statist…

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To those who say we can’t do anything:

8,200 people died of drug overdoses in Europe in 2018, about *10x* less than US OD death rate:

emcdda.europa.eu/edr2019_en
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Mike Shellenberger
@ShellenbergerMD
If you want people to think your goal isn't climate but rather making (& keeping) nations poor, then attacking France & Brazil, which get 86% & 79% of their power from zero-carbon sources, is a great strategy

PS: 26% of Brazilians (55M people) live in poverty you can't imagine
Attacking nuclear as "extremely dangerous" reinforces the sense that what you want isn't lower emissions but "de-growth"

Why? Because nuclear

- is how France & your country, Sweden, get 86% & 90% of their power from zero-carbon sources

- is THE SAFEST way to make electricity
French President @EmmanuelMacron is right: Your "Very radical positions [are] likely to antagonize our societies"

Indeed, they already have

But then, perhaps that was the goal all along?

europe1.fr/international/…
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Mike Shellenberger
@ShellenbergerMD
"Despite billions invested in 30,000 wind turbines, German emissions have not declined... electricity bills are higher every year" & costs are "the highest since the beginning of Energiewende," leading German newspaper @Welt finds in major new report

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