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Some greens have been ranting about how we need to stop fusion being developed because it represents a clean source of abundant energy.

If the Greens of the 70s hadn't blown up Three Mile Island so much as they had, carbon emissions would be a lot lower. Did you know that coal plants are far more polluting than nuclear, not only in the typical ways, but in emission of radioactive materials?

But no, the environmentalists say, we must ban what are merely the more efficient application of techniques that have been used since the dawn of agriculture. They're not really in favour of conserving the environment. What they're in favour of is demolishing industrial civilisation.

Space is the ultimate goal, but in the interim we should switch to fission supplemented by renewables as a stopgap until we can crack fusion.

Humankind has been manipulating the environment to better suit itself for thousands of years - in many ways it can be thought of as one of our defining traits as a species. Now some of this manipulation has had negative side effects, definitely, but destroying or cutting back technological...