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> Since the waste from a single power plant during one year of operation is enough to kill hundreds of millions of people

Chances of that happening is minuscule and if left uncheck, global warming will kill more than that.

> who will get no benefit from it, just so we can have cheap energy today

Or they figure out better ways to use it that don’t involve killing people.

> proverbial cloudy days

According to this website[0], Germany had about half a years worth of sunny days in 2020. 50% is a long shot from proverbial and according to tfa it’s being bridged by other EU nations and coal.

[0] https://ru-geld.de/en/country/weather-and-climate/sunshine.h...



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