Green activists are the only reason we have any green energy at all.

Well, if it weren't for green activists, we'd probably be exclusively using nuclear power at this point, so we'd be in a much better spot for green energy

The coal and oil industries have been quietly bankrolling anti-nuclear efforts for decades under the guise of safety. It's a prime example of astroturfing.

This I highly doubt. Especially when it comes to solar, for which there are many reasons to adopt apart from environmental concerns.

True or not, I would totally believe that the people who are so anti-nuclear they don't want any further research done into the subject are probably being funded by the fossil fuel industry.

Just a few links I gathered some time ago when discussing the related topic:

"Has Russia Been Financing Western Environmentalism?" (2022) [0]

"Putin Is Funding Green Groups to Discredit Natural Gas Fracking" (2017) [1]

"German green group branded a Russian ‘puppet’ over Nord Stream II gas pipeline" (2021) [2]

[0]: https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/18330/russia-funding-envi...

[1]: https://www.newsweek.com/putin-funding-green-groups-discredi...

[2]: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/german-green-group-brande...

> Look at what did they do to Germany!

Increased low carbon energy by more than the first twelve years of the messmer plan in spite of being betrayed by the SDR immediately and then having the conservatives cut funding further?

No, fearmongering Germany into shutting down the whole nuclear energy industry. Just compare them to France?

France had nothing to do with shutting down Energywende for the betternpart of a decade and neither did environmentalists.

That is, of course, not true:

"The anti-nuclear movement was one of the key driving factors behind the foundation of the Green Party (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen) in 1980." [0]

[0]: https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/history-behind-ge...

Doesn't say anything about Gazprom and their employee schroder being greens.

Looks like the goalpost has moved.

Show me the bit where the greens shut down funding for renewables.