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Environment & Energy

NNadir

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1. This should thrill our antinuke community since their mass intensive junk...

Reply to OKIsItJustMe (Original post)

Thu May 21, 2026, 11:11 AM

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...relies on mining.

It's antinuke Benjamin Sovacool"s literally wet dream, although he says it should be "sustainably."

How mining the shit out of the sea floor is "sustainable" and "renewable" escapes me but after a time one needs to accept that the willful abuse of language, Orwell's doublespeak has in fact come to rule the world.

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