Maybe this is already widely understood on here, but I feel understanding how the anti-communist left was leveraged to fight nuclear energy.
As more people are reading this I wanted to share what I consider to be a superior analysis https://communistperspective.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-nuclear-debate-for-and-against.html
And to be clear, you can be pro-renewable without being anti-nuclear I am referring to many of the European Green parties that are anti-nuclear above all else. Nuclear has it’s drawbacks, but it is preferable to climate change, for now.
My FIL is an environmental inspector for a city and he inspects big companies and their waste. He knows a lot about energy.
He’s really anti-nuclear because he sees it as a non-renewable source of energy. He’d rather have the world running on renewable energy sources as that’s always better than having to deal with toxic/dangerous waste. I’ve always found his POV very interesting and I could see his point. It also went a whole lot deeper than just slap some wind turbines on a field. He’s also advocating zero waste, trying to design cities in smarter ways, trying to rethink our consumption needs etc.
I’m not really against nuclear energy but I think I agree with his renewable energy view. But it still has a long way to go, like this article mentions. Nuclear energy seems inevitable for now. His view is also pretty Western-minded as The West has more financial resources.
I don’t understand the article’s ‘fossil industry puppet’ point though. Apart from the one organization he mentions. Just because there are people that also want to look at non-nuclear options does not mean they are puppets of the Big Oil.
I highly reccomend this article
As to the fossil fuel industry puppet, that is just the article’s only mentioned source. look up literally any anti-nuclear activists that have made a career out of it, and look through their background. imo they scream “wisner’s wurlitzer” type academics. (CIA operation in the 50’s to infiltrate academia with post-modernists). Greenpeace is kind of notorious for being impractical on this front.
France gets around 70% of it’s power from nuclear with no problems. You have people who want to dismantle reactors… with no plan beyon “we need renewables”. What results is that they return to being dependent on the fossil fuel industry. That’s what Germany literally just did.
Sorry for jumping around, I have to go run errands, but the point is that when billions of dollars/annually are at stake you should put on your conspiracy glasses a bit more.