1. What is the evidence for my claim that it's greens not skeptics that block almost all clean energy projects?https://twitter.com/AnneGlover_EU/status/653561053314478080 …
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2. Let's start with a major source of zero-carbon power I inadvertently left off my list: hydro-electric dams, which greens seek to block.
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3. Poor nations everywhere build dams to climb out of poverty because they provide large quantities of baseload power for cities & industry.
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4. In the U.S. in '30s, T.V.A. dams helped develop deforested, soil-depleted, & malarial South — a drive prosperity. http://goo.gl/HngCfu
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5. The 60s Left turned against the progressive TVA — & dams generally — for ideological "small-is-beautiful" reasons http://goo.gl/HngCfu
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6. In 60s & 70s, Malthusian greens like Paul Ehrlich & the Sierra Club's David Brower sought to choke off energy to stop/slow development.
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7. "Giving society cheap, abundant energy,” Paul Ehrlich wrote in 1975, “would be the equivalent of giving an idiot child a machine gun.”
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8. For last 40 yrs, Sierra Club, International Rivers Net., FOE, et al have halted funding for dams in poor nations — including in Ethiopia!
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9. Nuclear energy is the cleanest & greenest form of energy & thus was threatening to Malthusian greens. https://goo.gl/1sT7cF
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