So what should the Indians do Jim? Continue to burn wood and coal? Like us? We have to be the biggest most destructive idiots on the planet. We could have powered the whole country with our few small uranium mines, but instead, thanks to the anti-nuclear movement, we have trashed the Hunter valley and are doing the same to large areas of Qld to produce coal and consequent illness and carbon. We could have been shutting coal down, but instead its been expanding for decades while "green" groups rallied to fight the wrong target. Instead of fighting the bad guys, they were fighting the best and cleanest energy source we have.

Nuclear, globally, by replacing coal (and wood) has cleaned up plenty of pollution and prevented millions of illnesses and premature deaths and could have done much more if it wasn't for the anti-nuclear movement. We could have all been generating electricity for 70 grams of CO2 per kwh like the French since about 1990, but instead, thanks to you (and me before I woke up) we have been generating 850 grams of CO2 per kwh over the same period. I'm ashamed of my stupidity, but you just keep going. Our current climate mess is largely due to the anti-nuclear movement. Nukes crushed the oil crisis in the 70s in about 15 years while renewables were built but did bugger all ... they were built and are quietly rusting away in various parts of the US, but the nukes keep pushing out clean electricity.

Anybody wanting more about the hood winking of the environment movement can just google "GreenJacked".