none of this discussion is about nuclear power or thorium and just about people wanting to feel morally correct about something and snarling back and forth at each other

I’m posed to snarl because I’ve seen this so many times before, as a justification to invade and destroy advanced industrial states that don’t bend the knee to the US State Department.

The reason you get thorium reactors out of China and Mars landers out of India comes down to two words “Peace Dividend”.

Our species is so cooked.

There’s a brighter future on the horizon. But you don’t get there by taking Marco Rubio at face value.