• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Greenpeace advocated for this back in the 1970s and that’s why we have an enormous wind and solar industry today. The Greenpeace lobby was just too damned powerful.

    • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      The reason we didn’t build any reactors after the 1970s is a combination of nuclear disarmament and slow return on investment, not Greenpeace. If Greenpeace had that much power they would have been able to shut down the oil and gas industry, too.