I’m not UlrikHD
Yes, I’m sure reopening coal plants and displacing villages to mine coal is a better environmental policy.
And are you suggesting that the West wouldn’t be able to build cheaper and faster nuclear power plants even if we had actually invested in the technology for all these years? Is nuclear technology some unicorn that can’t be improved with experience and research?
Building times are to be measured in decades.
Should probably have invested more into developing their knowledge and experience then. Just have a look at China.
Littering vast spaces of land for wind and sun power generation is hardly a better long term solution.
without any real say about them. You pay into the EU budget.
As opposed to the miniscule say we would have as one of 28. It would hardly make much of difference if Germany or France wanted to push in a different direction, or if the budding dictatorship member state decides to veto.
And again, what is there to gain to trade our sovereignty for? It would also make essentially impossible to ever decouple from EU if it starts going a direction we don’t want to follow.
We budget ~5 billion dollar annually in foreign aid. The annual EEA “membership cost” between 2014 and 2021 was ~0,4 billion. The cost really isn’t much of a concern. And it’s not like you stop sending money to the EU once you become a member. E.g. Sweden is a net contributer to EU with 1,6 billion euros spent in 2023.
It’s pretty good for us other nordics
I’m happy for you, and not at all salty that we’ll never have Scandinavian union instead 😔
Norway is already part of EEA and Schengen. Giving up more of the democratic power of the people to politicians and their benefactors in Brussels who couldn’t give a toss about Norway, for no gain, sounds like great deal.
Not to mention the insane scope creep that EU is undergoing, it’s hardly just a single market union anymore.
The European Union is good thing, and it has done great thing for Europe and its members, but Norway isn’t in situation where we need to join.
God no, why in the world would we ever want that?
Rice and onions are just about the only thing I have that last more than a few days. I don’t buy frozen food as I’ll just buy what I need at the store, 90% of my diet is just bread, eggs, chicken and rice, and 1.4kg of chicken is gone within 2-3 days.
You could always just lower your caloric intake if food became scarce.
The imo more interesting thing would be fresh water.
Tap water quality is great in Norway so water is something I never buy unless I forgot to fill up a bottle on a road trip. I don’t really know anyone other soda addicts that keep liquid stored at notable quantities.
Do you go to the supermarket every day?
There’s 5 food stores <7 minutes away from my apartment,. Why stockpile when you can just walk and pick up fresh food every other day.
What happens when you’re sick and can’t go shopping?
Is that a common occurrence? Just get a friend or family member to shop for you if you’re that ill, or order food delivery.
That’s been said for over a decade at this point. We could have had plenty of nuclear power plants and maintained/developed expertise in the area if clean energy was a goal that was taken seriously by Europe. Both solar and wind are innately inefficient in terms of W/m^2, and wind has the additional problem of noise pollution and environmental impact.