I agree with you. The ~250,000 tons of nuclear waste we have is a problem. However, we're even less well equipped to handle the ~50,000,000,000 tons of greenhouse gas waste we are generating per year today.
With nuclear waste the time scale is vastly different. For that we need to be able to plan for milennia.
It's a bad trade even assuming that we don't use those hundreds of years to innovate on the problem, but we should and are. For example, see the sibling thread, or look at TerraPower's reactor that runs off of spent nuclear fuel: https://www.terrapower.com/a-solution-to-the-nuclear-waste-p...
1. Dig a very deep hole
2. Put the bad stuff in the hole
3. Undig the hole
Well hot damn I guess I've done thousands of years' worth of planning.