Activists who embrace nuclear power
We&#x27;re going to have to build up our Nuclear infrastructure eventually because outside of fossil fuels, geothermal and hydro (both of which need particular geography so they can never be the final answer) there is nothing else.<p>Unfortunately the cultural push is for wind and solar, so it looks like we&#x27;re going to have to give wind and solar the &#x27;old college try&#x27; and lose precious decades before we realize we need nuclear.<p>It would have been nice to invest in Nuclear in the 70s to the same level as France, for example, and thereby prevent trillions of tons of CO2 that were emitted between the 70s and today from being emitted, and the trillions more between now and whenever we wake up to the fact that wind and solar just can&#x27;t scale. I suspect future generations will take a dim view of the anti-nuke environmental movement.<p>Worse, though wind and solar collectors may reduce CO2 emissions they are incredibly environmentally destructive in other ways. Let&#x27;s keep mind that global warming is only one aspect of environmental destruction. The other is regular habitat and ecosystem collapse due support of human civilization (cities, agriculture, transportation etc.). Solar and wind collectors have horrendous land-use requirements (land-use around mining for necessary materials, deployment of the collectors, and finally land-fill once out of use). So when it comes to ecosystem destruction, solar and wind make it worse on all counts.<p>I have no fuckin clue what environmentalists think will happen to the environment when we increase Solar and Wind collectors by several orders of magnitude (which would be necessary to support 7-10 billion people move partially from fossil fuels). Pure Insanity.<p>Oh well. It is what it is.