But there is a legitimate danger today: Post 9-11, one could crash an airplane into a nuke station and cause tremendous contamination. The hawkish conspiracy theorists must see how petro-dollars and funding of terrorism might be hand-in-hand to keep the world reliant on fossil fuels.

This has been a constant fear. The EU tried to “lead the way” on reducing their carbon footprint but leadership only works in sports teams not in international politics, IMO. Poorer nations have a very difficult decision to make – employ their people or be carbon friendly. The US and EU allowed their industries to get massive and keep their people employed throughout the 19th and 20th century. Now the 3rd world countries want to do that and there may not be room in the environment for them. So now the EU is hurting because they thought they could cut back and now they find that the rest of the world is taking advantage of them. Even worse, they are crippling themselves by limiting their options – no nuke plants (because of why?) and no gas plants because of geopolitics. WAKE UP EUROPEANS! Hurting your economy is not the answer to the world’s problems!