I've heard this argument before: that the true aim of these and other environmental efforts is to control people. To what aim, I don't know. Surely if this is the case, the whole idea of creating a defacto 'slave class' is repugnent to say the least. Every experiment down that avenue has ended in failure: the fall of the Roman Empire; the serfs and pesseants of the European Middle Ages; the US Revolutionary War; the French Revolution; more recently the Soviet Union; etc. China is slowly evolving a seemingly more liberal form of government.

Only where societies are truly free that ideas flourish--that is an experiment which all too often has not been explored enough. The US has 'dabbled' in it for a relatively brief two hundred years or so...but we seem to be backsliding back into an Authoritarian form of government...and that's not good.

Of course, it doesn't help that we seem to be enslaved to oil: the next time you buy gas think of the gigantic construction boom going on in Dubai--yes, that's your money hard at work! Wouldn't it be nice if we chose to invest domestically and create a viable alternative to Middle Eastern petroleum: the money you spend here will stay here and grow...

By continuously increasing the strangle hold of oil by shirking more environmentally friendly technologies (here nuclear power is one of those) we are ensuring that sometime in the future there will be an oil war--a real war fought with real nuclear weapons; with real people dying by the billions; and a real environmental catastrophe far worse than just about anything else...

The only path I see to Survival of the Human Species lies in Freedom. The other paths have already been thoroughly trampled...

It's interesting that the "environmentalists" seem to favor only those energy sources that are marginal and oppose those that will work economically.  The like ethanol but not liquid fuels made from coal.  They like solar but not nuclear, etc.  Their does seem to be an agenda with the "hard greens" isn't just protecting nature.