The environmentalists’ opposition for selfish reason is similar to what is occurring in the U.K. There, environmental groups oppose the construction of a Lithium plant. It is clean, low-risk and has no waste issues. The dangerous factor for environmentalists, however, is that it can process dangerous nuclear waste from Nuclear plants, converting it to harmless material. This enrages environmentalists, since the danger of nuclear waste has been their biggest talking point against nuclear energy. They can’t articulate this, so they have become quite irrational, though of course no less effective among their constituency.
I think it is safe to say they do not fare well in the face of the unemployment they have imposed on so many others.