Nuclear energy is the only large-scale, cost-effective energy source that can reduce these emissions while continuing to satisfy a growing demand for power. And these days it can do so safely. Utter blasphemy. Nuclear is evil.
It is funny how the most obvious way to fight the greatest threat to mankind (that would be global warming to all the greenies) is completely ignored. It does not take a genius to say, 'hey, what about nuclear energy'. But nuclear is a word you do not utter unless you are making fun of Bush.
I was a college student in Missoula, Montana in the late 70s/early 80s; Ground Zero for the Granola Life. Having been force fed "The Population Bomb" in eighth grade, I graduated to such ideas as "Should Trees Have Standing? Toward Legal Rights for Natural Objects," "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance," global winter and the apocalypse we would face from the nuclear menace (power, not bombs) I'm thinking of all the different fuel additives we've used since the early '70s because the old ones were so dangerous. Come to find out, so are the new ones!
Activists spoke fondly of 19th Century America, "Green, Small, and Renewable/Sustainable." They weren't pushing some kind of honest environmental agenda, they were monkey wrenching society. I have no use for any of them. He is as responsible as anyone for the situation he now deplores.