@1 well said.

In a sane world, global crises like these would be a wake-up call that we need to seriously re- envision the way we power things in our lives. But, you know...

@1: Yes, but nuclear power catastrophes would be worse than global warming, so there's that.

Congratulations, Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett on your Grammy wins!

@1 STII & @2 Brent Gumbo: +2 Thank you both for covering it for me.

@5 yep

@5 STII: Don't forget the "accidents" at Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania on March 28, 1979, and more recently at Daiichi Fukushima, Fukushima, Japan, on March 4, 2011.
50 years ago we COULD have had a very similar nuclear disaster right here in the Pacific Northwest.
If John Nelson of Seattle City Light, in conjunction with Bonneville, for wont of big bucks selling energy to California and the Southwest had gotten his way when purchasing Kiket Island, a peninsula on the Swinomish Reservation 5 miles west of La Conner, a rural channel town 60 miles north of Seattle, and Samish Island near Bow (Skagit County) for proposed nuclear power plants, such a disaster would have wiped out the Puget Sound region if not the entire state of Washington. {Nuclear Power Controversy in Skagit County 1967-1983, timeline and sources cited, Eileen Andersen, webmaster and former librarian, Samish Island Community Center (SICC), 11292 Blue Heron Rd, Bow, WA 98232 or visit their website at samishisland@gmail.com ]

This kind of reminds me of the late Doug the Thug Ericksen's unscrupulous shenanigans in Whatcom County, pandering to the insatiably gluttonous fossil fuel industry's wish for a shiny new coal terminal to be built, illegally trespassing on Lummi Island Nation soil on Cherry Point (Xwe'chi'eXen), protected by a 1855 treaty. Backers of the proposed new terminal tried to pass their illegal raping of sacred tribal land off for "Good Jobs Now". This was a scam from the start in 2013, when some 2,000 BNFE rail "jobs" were initially offered, later dwindling down to less than 200 with rising opposition from the tribe and surrounding communities. Cargo ships were to load thousands of tons of coal from the Dakotas and Montana, transported by uncovered rail cars to be shipped to Asia (China doesn't need U.S mined coal; it has its own resources). A study by the Army Corps.of Engineers ruled that the tons of coal would threaten local fishing, a sacred Lummi Nation right, irreparably pollute the Salish Sea, Strait of Juan de Fuca and Strait of Georgia, and destroy marine life---endangered Southern resident orcas, whose numbers have been dwindling since the 1980s--in particular. Coal, by the way, has long since lost its high value. Don't let Donald Trump and Joe Manchin fool you. Just ask members of the Crow tribe of Southern Montana (Apsaalooke, also spelled Absaroka) who were duped into agreeing to have their mountain strip mined, while being promised scholarships for their children and 5% in coal stock dividends (Gee, what is 5% of three cents?).The states of South Dakota, Wyoming, and Montana--or anywhere else---shouldn't be dictating what they can haul through our state.
That fracked crude oil trains pass through our communities itself is another Lac-Megantic, Quebec fatal train derailment (on July 6, 2013) waiting to happen. There has since been an oil car derailment outside of Custer, Whatcom County (December 29, 2020). Although damage and ground contamination were minimal, "accidents" like these cannot happen again. The fossil fuel industry, public utilities (Bonneville), and all environmental profiteers must be held accountable.

And that is Grizelda's ecological history lesson for this week, folks. You're welcome.

...nuclear power catastrophes would be worse than global warming, so there's that.

Absolutely not. We know what the outcome of a (very unlikely) nuclear accident is. We still don't know the outcome of climate change.

It is technologically possible to build safe nuclear power plants. The problem is that, at least in the US, we don't have the government for it. In this country, every nuclear plant is a unique snowflake. In France, the designs are standardized (https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/frances-efficiency-in-the-nuclear-fuel-cycle-what-can-oui-learn). It should be obvious that mechanical reliability and workforce training both benefit from that.

@11
Next time just type out "I wish to present you with a list of logical fallacies about [insert topic here]." And save yourself and us some time.

@9 STII: "Anyone who wants to stem climate change, who does not understand that nuclear needs to be part of the solution does not fully appreciate the danger posed by climate change."
You STILL don't get it, do you? "Only 3 accidents" in 66 years is still too many!
Did you even bother to visit the site I posted and read the findings of the environmental impact studies?
Are you rooting for Vladimir Putin to win his declared WWIII against the Ukraine and the rest of us on Earth, too? Vlady would LOVE to push the "Big, shiny red candy-like button". In case you forgot, Putin rigged the 2016 U.S. election to help get his sock puppet, the radioactive Orange Turd, illegally into the White House. Both men are mentally insane megalomaniacs who'll stop at nothing to destroy democracy and end the world, all for the last ruble. Every MAGA rube here in the neofascist blood red States of Confusion comprises their army of the willfully misinformed (does the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol ring any bells? It's called DOMESTIC TERRORISM, brought to you by the GOP, The Party of Trump--who ordered to have his own VP, Mike Pence murdered). And tragically yet again, catastrophic history repeats itself. We still haven't learned a fucking thing in 66 years. The nuclear waste alone from Hanford contaminating the Columbia river is still an unresolved nightmare.
Be careful of what you wish for, Stimpy. By hitting the History Erase Button it's permanently Game Over. You and everyone else voting RepubliKKKan and cheering on Russia lose, too.

And while we're at it......

@1 STII: France gets over 75 PERCENT of its electricity form nuclear power? That's a rather high dependency on nuclear energy don't you think? That makes about as much sense as Texas lawmen being all smug with the feds about their Lone Star State's own exclusive power grid----("We can handle it ourselves!")---until a record cold snap hits and the power grid fails, causing a death toll of about 246 people in Winter, 2021. Meanwhile, ol' Teddy Cruz and family jump ship to Cancun....Don't Mess with Texas!
I wouldn't dare---they're messed up enough, already.
Here's hoping France doesn't become the next Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, or Daiichi Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant disaster.