Interesting stuff
I wonder if his support of things like this is the real reason the hard left hates the otherwise rather leftist Gates so much?
The environmental movement often appears to me to interested not so much in the environment as it is nature worship. Any form of energy that allows people to not live in mud huts is frowned on
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Despite their talking points, our socialists are less interested in the result than in the process, the process being the destruction of 'capitalism', which is their narrow Marxian view of natural economic activity. On a personal level, they don't want others to be demonstrably more successful at life than them, i.e. envy.
So they want to impede or destroy anything that might create greater economic activity or prosperity. That includes oil exploration, production and transportation, shale gas, nuclear power, and, yes, thorium energy. You will see widespread attention being given lately to the dangers of thorium reactors: gamma rays, etc. Only a few years ago it seemed like they would support the "champagne of petroleum". Sure enough they spread their views on aquifer pollution to the point that France, against its interests, now bans gas fracking. We will soon see this happen with thorium.
Appropriately, the countries that are influenced by the socialists will suffer declining influence and those that follow common sense will achieve prosperity. That does not bode well for "developed" nations.
I wonder if his support of things like this is the real reason the hard left hates the otherwise rather leftist Gates so much?
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hard to say. Might have something to do with windows.
The environmental movement often appears to me to interested not so much in the environment as it is nature worship. Any form of energy that allows people to not live in mud huts is frowned on
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agree.
Greenies worship dirt. “Progress” to these people is when the government becomes the repository of all virtue.