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points by PaulDavisThe1st 2 days ago | 0 comments

Opposition to specific power technologies is not opposition to power technologies. How difficult is this to grasp?

Nobody said that. You're frustrating yourself against an imaginary argument.

You were using the example of "left" opposition to nuclear power as a complete or partial refutation to my point that there really is no or very little "left" opposition to power technology.

[–] carlosjobim 2 days ago

That is opposition to a power technology. Not opposition to all power technology.

[–] PaulDavisThe1st 2 days ago

I did not interpret "power sources" as singular in your original remark:

> The demands to remove power sources come from the left.

[–] carlosjobim 1 day ago

Maybe I write too much like a journalist, but you've misunderstood that sentence. It would read "remove all power sources" if I wanted to say that.

I also wouldn't have written "remove a power source", since there are movements on the left against several different power sources, including nuclear and coal and maybe more. In the context of this discussion we might however stick to just talking about nuclear and solar.