A big drama in the UK as Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace discover that solar farms occupy plenty of space and cannot decide what is more evil: 7 hectares of nuclear power plant or 298 km2 of solar power plant.
@kravietz that reads more like propaganda than coherent argument, as if land use were the only topic here. Very one-sided.
But not surprising as he is part of this "generation atomic" thing, that is basically a lobby group posing as a "grassroots" organisation, no? ... whilst also working in the nuclear industry.
This kind of communication gives me the feel of PR greenwashing like when oil companies try to rebrand themselves as environmental. Not the whole story.
I'm really pleased that you eventually acknowledge Green Party, RPSB, Greenpeace and the Campaign to Protect Rural England - who all came up against that Kent solar farm - as "lobby groups posing as a grassroots organisations". All the remaining part of your argument stands valid for them too.
@kravietz I didn't mention or share links from those orgs. I'm not sure I have a particular opinion on them either. In general I'm not that into big shiny campaigning organisations.
On the fediverse I hope to find balanced debate to engage in, not propaganda wars. That is already covered well enough.
Ok, but this guy made a very clear, personal and consistent argument - which you rather rudely dismissed as "propaganda", because he's "also working in the nuclear industry", zero discussion about the actual argument he made. And now you ask about "balanced debate"... 🤔
@kravietz you're right, I'm not engaging in balanced debate about the topic itself.
I generally wouldn't do that in response to one sided arguments that come across as propaganda to me. It seems a bad opening for debate, and kind of mocking the other side.
Nuclear is a very polarising topic and I'm not sure I've participated in or even seen a balanced debate about it.
I appreciate it and happy to restart the debate from the scratch here :)
The topic is polarising today only because it was made such by Greenpeace and FoE but as a matter of fact it's just another cost-benefit, evidence-based, risk-management discussion we must have if we want to prevent climate change.
