Different energy sources is good. Keeping an old source, despite it beif uncompetitive, is not good. Geothermal, hydro, solar, wind, nuclear. These are the best sources we have so far.
"different is good" but also, "not those old ones have to go". either you're for diversity or your not.
Not to mention the actual deaths due to air pollution. The coal industry alone puts more than enough uranium in the atmosphere to run a plant.
Admitadely it is a heavy element that wouldn't stay up long. Actual smog contributes to many deaths though.
I am not for fossil fuels at all. Diversity minus fossil fuels. They are more vastly subsidized than people realise. In actual subsidies, and in future debt they are causing.
thats not how diversity works. more variability in options now (even the ones you dont like) results in faster adaptation to a changing environment.
Diversity, sure. He problem is that fossil fuels are such a large industry that they push other things out of the market. If it wasn't for their momentum they would fail on their own.
