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Anyone who calls themself a climate change activist and supports shutting down nuclear plants is - well, I prefer not to use invective on HN, so let's say extremely misguided.


So the green party in basically every country?


Yes.

We had a Greens candidate here running for election, and his main campaign promise was to shut down a 10+ billion dollar motorway underpass that was 99% completed at the time of the election.

His approach for "saving the environment" is to convert efficient motorway travel into inefficient stop-start traffic. And to throw away tens of billions of dollars of already spent resources.


As much as I'd like to support actual competent Green candidates, this example is what I've seen my entire life in the US.


You know what would actually take some political willpower?

Banning plastic packaging and waterproofing.

My bet is that just like before i was born, after I’m gone these things will only increase.




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