Again, this is why I'm a consequentialist.

Nuclear power in Europe reduces European dependency on Middle Eastern oil, whose supply is controlled by Saudi Arabia, the hand that rocks ISIS. The US does have alternative oil sources: domestic plus Canadian and Latin American. Europe has some suppliers: Britain, Norway, Romania; but nothing on the scale it needs. Nuclear is necessary against that dependency.

And the Greens' promotion of windmills as the answer to nuclear is simply wrong. Windmills require for their building and maintenance more energy than they produce, making them a bad energy investment. And they also produce something else: a lot of noise. Green politicians don't care because their voters don't listen to that noise; it's in the infrasound range inaudible to hoomins. But many animals can hear it. Farm mammals have literally died from the noise: they have gone crazy, literal crazy, from it; or they have been kept awake by it until death from fatigue ~ exhaustion ~ sleep deprivation. Birds and bats, despite being theoretically able to fly away to escape the noise, actually have it worse. Apart from the same effects of going crazy or being kept awake, the noise alters their flight patterns and disorients them, leading them to get lost and end up in the open sea, where they will fall and drown, or flying too much and, again, exhaustion deaths; this effect is greater for bats as they depend on ecolocation for guidance and orientation, which is rendered useless by the windmills' noise.

It does sound great, deontologically, to get rid of nuclear power. The consequences, though, are worse than the problem.

Europe should be nuclear, and renew its nuclear plants and build more. It would be the best to reduce geopolitically costly oil dependency and (if you care about that) the carbon footprint. Without sacrificing animal lives wantonly. And rather gruesomely; to use noise to create sleep deprivation, disorientation or driving you crazy would be considered torture if performed on hoomins.

But this requires looking past the idealism, into the consequences.





Cuteness is to die for
Cuteness cannot fail
Cuteness knows no limit
Cuteness will prevail