There's plenty of cautionary tales about mindless techno-optimism, but the role of 70s environmentalism is blocking nuclear power and making climate change orde

There's plenty of cautionary tales about mindless techno-optimism, but the role of 70s environmentalism is blocking nuclear power and making climate change orders of magnitude worse is a great cautionary tale on the dangers of pessimism and obstructionism. A big part of the problem with 70s environmentalism is that a lot of it's rooted in the fantasy of returning to some pre-industrial mode of existence. That's never going to happen barring an extinction level event that would do as much harm to the rest of the biosphere as it would to us. We need to be looking at how to make our technological civilization less damaging to our biosphere and more sustainable long term, not wasting time with fantasies.