France generates 70% of its electricity from nuclear power, yet many environmentalists still oppose it. The speaker uses this as a test of whether climate advocates are genuinely committed to clean energy or driven by ideology.
I have a litmus test for the intellectual honesty of the Greens. Are you passionately pro-nuclear power or not? What is it, France gets 70% of its electricity from nuclear energy, is that correct? Why isn't that dispositive, as the lawyers put it? Why doesn't that convince you that we should have nuclear energy if you want quote-unquote clean energy? I've been asking that since the subject arose.
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