https://www.yahoo.com/news/switzerland-votes-phase-nuclear-energy-121710224.html
Swiss voters have backed government plans to replace the power from ageing nuclear reactors with renewable energy.
A total of 58.2 per cent of voters supported the phaseout of nuclear energy in a binding referendum on Sunday. Under the Swiss system of direct democracy, voters have the final say on major policy issues.
The plan will provide billions of pounds in subsidies for renewable energy, ban the construction of nuclear plants and decommission the country’s five existing ones, which produce about a third of the country’s electricity.
[...] The move echoes efforts across Europe to reduce dependence on nuclear energy and has been in the making following Japan’s Fukushima disaster in 2011. Germany has announced it will close all nuclear plants by 2022 and Austria banned it decades ago.
(Score: 4, Funny) by kaszz on Tuesday May 23 2017, @01:51AM (2 children)
Crowd sourcing without qualification at its finest.. :p
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 23 2017, @06:38AM (1 child)
Yes, because the qualification of "get people to vote for you" suddenly qualifies a person to be an authority on anything besides accumulating votes.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Wednesday May 24 2017, @02:36AM
Qualification means understanding what you vote on and the consequences it will have. Voting X because some other dude did so is bad basis for decision making.