The specific issues aren't the point. The point is that most people don't have informed opinions based on fact but rather just regurgitate whatever is fed to t

The specific issues aren't the point. The point is that most people don't have informed opinions based on fact but rather just regurgitate whatever is fed to them in whatever media they consume. Us sitting here having an educated debate on the merits of nuclear vs hydro aren't the problem, we lie in the relatively informed group. We have concerns about nuclear (and other technologies no doubt) but those come from a place of reason, not of group-think. Side note: Nuclear and it's relation with Green's parties around the world is also special as it was the platform on which those parties were created. So otherwise rational people, i.e environmentalists are irrationally against nuclear power because of long-standing historical reasons that probably don't hold anymore but can't change the very basis of their platform - or at least are unwilling to. No amount of facts changes that as it has nothing to do with facts and everything to do with politics.