Tech companies now acknowledge [13] that they are failing to meet [14] their carbon emission reduction goals because of the mega-computing [15] necessary for artificial intelligence—as if AI were something good and inevitable rather than ultra-dystopian [16]. Meanwhile, the nuclear industry exploits carbon concerns [17] to lubricate its comeback [18]—with even countries like Kenya [19] now planning reactors, amid oppressive [20] and iniquitous [21] social conditions. Even apart from the risk of devastating accidents [22], the normal functioning of nuclear power constitutes an ongoing disaster [23] due to the dilemmas of waste disposal and the despoliation of indigenous lands by uranium mining [24]. Climate disaster versus nuclear disaster is a false choice posed by omnicidal [25] techno-capitalism. The only way to salvage a dignified human future lies in the abolition of fossil fuels, nuclear power and artificial intelligence alike. So argues Bill Weinberg in Episode 234 [26] of the CounterVortex podcast [27]. Listen on SoundCloud [26] or via Patreon [29].
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