Environmentalists, at least in Germany, simply aren’t serious. They had a chance to prove otherwise today when the German government announced a big increase in gas- and coal-fueled power plants to make up for Germany new ban on nuclear power. Obviously, burning gas and coal generate lots of greenhouse gases, which nuclear power does not.
If they were serious about global warming, German environmentalists could have called for a resumption of nuclear power. Instead we saw that concern over global warming does not yet take precedence over anti-nuclear hysteria.
Rather than acknowledge that they faced a real choice between nuclear power or fossil fuels, Germany’s environmentalists (at least as quoted on Marketplace) instead called for greater use of imaginary and/or cost-prohibitive technologies.
If environmentalists can’t set aside their irrational fear of nuclear power to deal with global warming, a problem that they say threatens the entire world, they simply are not to be taken seriously.
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