I just read a piece in the Pacific Northwest National Laboratories (PNNL) Currents publication advocating an economic basis for maintaining and extending the life of nuclear power plants in the US
Personally, I'm fine with nuclear power and have seen little to justify writing it off entirely, especially considering the climate issues we face.
Something to keep in mind when reading this piece is that currently the US generates almost 20% of its power from nuclear reactors. This represents about 778 billion kWh.
Consider also that France generates almost 70% of its electricity from nuclear plants, which represents about 361 billion kWh.
In today’s UK, many people are still not used to seeing #ethnic#minority#women being proud of their #authenticity, style & ideas. They’d be more comfortable if we conform. But if we conform we lose some of our #power. Oh, yes forgot to say, they’re essentially scared of that power!
A quick look at the political tools of fascism, this book is a great starting point if you've never really bothered to take a look at what fascism is and how it works. Much of the extreme rhetoric you're hearing today will make a whole lot more sense in the context of this book.
The reason Republicans go after trans people, CRT, etc is they have professionals who have done polling & focus groups & examined the psychology telling them there are effective targets.
As with everything they do, the goal is to get the public to move power to them so they can use that power to benefit their benefactors.
Tax cuts, get kill regulations that protect the public but impede profits, privatize public goods, etc.
In his latest post, @pluralistic writes about studying the practice of democratic decision-making in the same ways Elinor Ostrom scientifically studied what makes a successful commons work.
This field is called Analytical Democratic Theory. I've been working on another side of this: how do we make genuine and meaningful invitations to people to participate in managing the problems that affect them?