Three Mile Island is what killed nuclear power in the US. It wasn’t environmentalists, it was basically everyone and it was a pretty galvanizing moment in Amer

Three Mile Island is what killed nuclear power in the US. It wasn’t environmentalists, it was basically everyone and it was a pretty galvanizing moment in American politics. Nuclear power even before three Mile island was a mess in America, with horrendous mismanagement. It’s easy to sit in 2023 and pin nuclear powers failure on some political movement you want to grind an axe with, but ignoring the context of 1979 and the events that actually killed nuclear power doesn’t help with understanding how to exit the paralysis. Plants do use CO2, but we have also stripped the planet of an awful lot of its wild lands. Oceans might help us over a long horizon, but we shouldn’t expect plant life is surging planet wide due to the excess co2. That’s just not what’s happening in actual reality. Volcanoes emit on the upper end of estimates an average of 0.6B metric tons of CO2 per year in total. Humans emitted an approximate 37B in 2022. It’s just a falsehood or delusion to claim volcanoes emit more CO2 than humans.