Thread by @ShellenbergerMD

"My commitment to the Left came to its final breaking point after Cuomo, NRDC, & AOC forced the premature closure of Indian Point nuclear plant... By forsaking nuclear energy, the Left has abandoned its duty to deliver shared prosperity."

@dumbaristotle

theamericanconservative.com/articles/nucle…

@dumbaristotle "The Left’s fantasies are romantic. The romance is that of trauma and healing. They think in terms of victimization rather than moral agency...."

"Personal pain—not universal rights nor civic duty—is the prism through which they derive their conceptions of the social good. Absence of pain serves as their vision of freedom."

"This, combined with the Left’s lack of engineering discipline, has manifested in its wrong-headed support of 'green energy.' Advocates believe that they can achieve harmony with nature through renewables like wind and solar and heal our relationship with the earth."

"Never mind that for every 0.88 MW of solar and wind you install, you need 1.0 MW of fossil fuel back-up. Or that renewables create over-reliance on weather-dependent technologies, natural gas, and imported electricity, on full display during California’s blackouts."

"For them the history of industry is inherently cruel, racist, colonialist, and has thus been a disaster for the human race. If we have only inherited barbarism, who cares if we destroy what we’ve inherited?"