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Originally Posted by accord1999
No, because in reality there's nothing that could be done to satisfy the loudest environmental groups who protest to shut down perfectly working nuclear power plants which have the lowest CO2 emissions other than hydro. A single barrel of oil is still too much for them.
Many of these groups want nothing more than the complete deindustrialization (and therefore collapse) of modern human civilization.
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To me this is the main issue in a nutshell. Our standard of living is thousands of times better than ever before in human history. Much of that is due to the use of fossil fuels, and the steady reliable source of energy we have as a result of their use.