Duckbag posted:

That's not fair, there are plenty of Green Party types who don't fit into that anti-intellectual hippie caricature. It's just that even the reasonable people don't seem like they know how to get anything done.

If you think opposing nuclear power is worse than what the Republicans have been doing, then all I can say is you have no idea what the republicans have been doing.

Fun fact, many rightwingers are just as anti-nuclear. Coal, oil, and gas companies are huge Republican donors and the right has bought into the notion that they're "clean enough." The Republicans have controlled Congress for years and the Obama administration has always been fairly neutral on the nuclear issue. If they wanted to invest in new reactors, they certainly could, but they haven't and it certainly isn't because they're afraid to piss off environmentalists.

Also, nuclear power has legitimate dangers (though the meltdown risk for a properly maintained reactor is vanishingly small) and as long as the issue of radioactive waste disposal remains unresolved will always be a lesser evil rather than a unqualified Good Thing. I've never met an environmentalist who supported fossil fuel over nuclear (most are probably holding out for wind/solar/etc.), it's just that sometimes people don't think these things through. What happened in Germany certainly sounds like botched policy, but I still think it's absurd to equate it with utter nonsense like killer wifi.