Pwns wrote:I'll put on my partisan hat and say it...I think part of the reason that some leftists oppose nuclear power is because they see the climate issue as a battering ram to make economic and social changes that could never be made without a crisis to justify them and nuclear power ruins that.
Let's see, do we want to tax carbon or build more nuclear and gradually phase in electric vehicles? One of them is an ultra-regressive tax scheme that will just make gas prices more expensive for poor people in rural areas with no public transportation and probably won't even reduce emissions, while the other one one is empirically proven to reduce emissions. Guess which idea leftists are more likely to support?
And yes, I do know some progressives support nuclear. Good for them. Direct the rage you have at cultural appropriators to people like Al Gore who have luddite ideas for energy.
The old guard of Western environmentalists were staunchly anti-nuke. Those were the days when nuke power wasn’t as safe, and of course nuclear weapons contributed to the overall anti-nuke sentiments. I like to call these earlier enviros the Jackson Browne wing of the left.
The problem with the younger new vanguard of progressives is that they aren’t as well educated in the sciences and so they don’t have the tools to fully understand how nuke power is in fact the golden key to the environmental goals they want to achieve
Agreed that there are a few who see it as a vehicle to transformation away from a capitalistic system, but that crowd isn’t prevalent.
Mostly they are just ignorant and angry
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