<story><title>Germany to Rethink Nuclear Shutdown as Energy Crisis Deepens</title><url>https://climatechangedispatch.com/germany-to-rethink-nuclear-shutdown-as-energy-crisis-deepens/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mc32</author><text>I will rail against Jane Fonda.&lt;p&gt;This person is the most responsible person for the situation we&amp;#x27;re in right now.  She conspired with others to derail (literally in some cases) Nuclear power.&lt;p&gt;This is what happens when you follow uninformed advocates from Hollywood.  People should learn to despise &amp;quot;influencers.&amp;quot; They know little but aim to move people to action based on poor or very poor understanding of the things they propose and base their positions on emotion, mostly.</text></item><item><author>notlukesky</author><text>Since the Ukraine crisis the EU is relabeling everything ESG:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.spglobal.com&amp;#x2F;marketintelligence&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;news-insights&amp;#x2F;latest-news-headlines&amp;#x2F;esg-investors-warm-to-nuclear-power-after-eu-green-label-award-69002267&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.spglobal.com&amp;#x2F;marketintelligence&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;news-insights...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Is this the inflection point when we go back to the 1970s? Richard Nixon had planned for 1000 nuclear reactors in the US for Project Independence by the year 2000:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Project_Independence&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Project_Independence&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mola</author><text>You let the oil industry off the hook pretty easily.
Renewables research have been hobbled for ages because of powerful lobby. It&amp;#x27;s only in the last decade that it was pushed to the front stage. 
Nuclear power is not some magic safe thing. It can and will cause horrible disaster and consequences if run the same way we run our energy economy for most of the last 100 years, by pure greed.&lt;p&gt;But yeah, blame Jane Fonda....</text></comment>
<story><title>Germany to Rethink Nuclear Shutdown as Energy Crisis Deepens</title><url>https://climatechangedispatch.com/germany-to-rethink-nuclear-shutdown-as-energy-crisis-deepens/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mc32</author><text>I will rail against Jane Fonda.&lt;p&gt;This person is the most responsible person for the situation we&amp;#x27;re in right now.  She conspired with others to derail (literally in some cases) Nuclear power.&lt;p&gt;This is what happens when you follow uninformed advocates from Hollywood.  People should learn to despise &amp;quot;influencers.&amp;quot; They know little but aim to move people to action based on poor or very poor understanding of the things they propose and base their positions on emotion, mostly.</text></item><item><author>notlukesky</author><text>Since the Ukraine crisis the EU is relabeling everything ESG:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.spglobal.com&amp;#x2F;marketintelligence&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;news-insights&amp;#x2F;latest-news-headlines&amp;#x2F;esg-investors-warm-to-nuclear-power-after-eu-green-label-award-69002267&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.spglobal.com&amp;#x2F;marketintelligence&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;news-insights...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Is this the inflection point when we go back to the 1970s? Richard Nixon had planned for 1000 nuclear reactors in the US for Project Independence by the year 2000:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Project_Independence&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Project_Independence&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hnhg</author><text>I&amp;#x27;d also consider the possibility that the generations-old and well-connected fossil fuel lobby also had a hand in it. In fact, I&amp;#x27;d wager a much larger effect than Ms Fonda and co.</text></comment>