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.
This interview lays out how the extraction of primary sector resources from the global south by the global north is what more or less produced the industrial revolution.
Primary sector : food, energy (at certain points those two are the same - human and animal power) and minerals.
Look up maps of these three things, Europe is poor as hell. Oil is just the latest iteration of this phenomenon, but it is central to empire. I don’t remember who it was, but an economist said that the advances in production are far less tied to technology than to energy. So the advent of the industrial revolution was due largely to the increased availability of fossil fuels/steam, than to “ingenuity”.