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It was not big oil that pushed the anti-nuclear campaign. It was environmentalists. And they're still active today, sometimes pushing for solar. Sometimes fight
by JamesBarney 3y ago
It was not big oil that pushed the anti-nuclear campaign. It was environmentalists. And they're still active today, sometimes pushing for solar. Sometimes fighting solar and windmills to protect wildlife.
Now I'm sure some oil and gas companies decided to fund some of these groups because they saw these people could be useful, but that doesn't mean the movement was astroturfing.
- Gud 3y agoIt was both. And in addition, some of these so called environmental organizations were funded by big oil.
- JamesBarney 3y agoIf big oil writes an environmental organization a check that doesn't make it astro turfing. Astroturfing is pretending their is a movement when there isn't. The anti-nuclear movement was real, big oil just wrote some of them checks because they realized what was bad for nuclear was good for them.
- Gud 3y agoI agree.