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And mushrooms and wild boar in Bavarian forests are still contaminated.

I’ll take contaminated mushrooms and wild boar to climate change and the large scale disease brought on by fossil fuels. Nuclear is much safer, even accounting for these absolute outliers.

> I’ll take contaminated mushrooms and wild boar to climate change and the large scale disease brought on by fossil fuels.

It's a good thing, then, that that's a false dilemma and nuclear and/or fossil fuels are clearly not the only options on the table.

As a reference, Germany already relies on renewables to supply around 60% of their energy needs, and it's production is still ramping up.

Also as a reference, German electricity prices are up and their Co2 emissions are up due to unreliable renewables.

If you look over the last 10 year, renewables have reduced the CO2 emissions considerably in Germany, reaching 50% in 2020. However, while 2020 was a record year with a huge increase vs. 2019, 2021 was back on the 2019 level, as the weather was very average.

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