The Springfield power plant is an oddly anachronistic element, a relic from when nuclear power was seen as “right-wing” and portrayed as the most dangerous, least eco-friendly energy source
>>151104997still, no one wants a nuclear plant near where they live let alone in their city
>>151104997People are going to bring up Chernobyl, but the shift actually started before then. The film The China Syndrome, starring Jane Fonda, was essentially about how nuclear power is super unsafe and just 12 days after its release, the Three Mile Island incident occurred. These two events killed public support for nuclear power among Boomers and Gen X., The Simpsons it's self shaped public perception of nuclear power in a negative light for Millennials.https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/the-simpsons-may-affect-view-of-nuclear-plants-prof-1.807902
>>151104997Whining about politics on the internet all day has turned you retarded.
>>151105194What's really funny is Three Mile Island was a completely nothingburger of an accident with no assured health incidents happening after it. It was all just fearmongering.
>>151104997*crow caws*
>>151104997>right-wing>Everything is right-wing left-wing my mind is poisoned and everything is politics.Shut the fuck up.
>>151104997You don't really notice it if you watched it when you were a kid, but the Simpsons pushed a lot of embarrasingly unsubtle propaganda for solar power (which at that point was basically useless). Just a facet of the show being written by boomer libtards who got their brains fried in '69.
>>151105472The old staff where made of a bunch of people who were nostalgic for the 60s and counter culture, but were in fact too young to have participated in it. Matt groening himself was born in 1954, which means he would have been a middle schooler and early high-school when that stuff was kicking off.
Isn’t the entire joke of the plant that Burns hires unqualified retards like Homer instead of nuclear physicians?
>>151104997People like Mr Burns should never be put in charge of businesses like this. That never changes.
