Tag: perception
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Population and climate
The climate emergency, cost-of-living crisis and wellbeing are the top concerns of young people in the UK and I argue that the latter two issues can be reduced if climate change and energy poverty are properly addressed. ‘Too many people’ may be true in respect of, say, urban planning, but for understanding why climate change,…
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Educational material: A Bird’s Eye View & LNT illustrations
Low-Level Radiation concerns: Henrietta learns that Mums like her don’t need to worry about mutations from nuclear power. Linear No Threshold Model: an explanation for the origin of radiophobia via Youtube If public policies promote a fear of low level ionising radiation from nuclear facilities over and above greenhouse gases, then decarbonisation will be very…
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10 Misconceptions about nuclear power
CREDIT DUE TO Professor Wade Allison: Author of Radiation and Reason and Nuclear Is for Life