Air pollution supposedly kills 2,000,000 people a year. Nuclear energy has killed far less than that in its entire history. Debates around this topic tend to have no basis in rationality at all, and many of the most vocal “environmentalists” are really just extreme anti-consumerist or anti-capitalist.

Talk to somebody from the anti-wind lobby of environmentalists and you’ll likely discover their preferred solution is that we simply stop using energy for things like heating, or watching tv, or using our computers…