That’s kind-of what happened with the anti-nuclear movement, but it ended up doing lots of harm because the things that could be stopped were the good ones!
The global stockpile of nuclear weapons is down 6x since its peak in 1986. Hard to attribute causality but if the anti-nuclear movement played a part in that, then I’d say it was net positive.
(My guess is it’s more attributable to the collapse of the Soviet Union than to anything else, but the anti-nuclear movement probably still played some nonzero role)
I’m sure it played some nonzero role, but is it anything like enough of an impact, and enough of a role to compensate for all the marginal harms of global warming because of stopping deployment of nuclear power (which they are definitely largely responsible for)?
The global stockpile of nuclear weapons is down 6x since its peak in 1986. Hard to attribute causality but if the anti-nuclear movement played a part in that, then I’d say it was net positive.
(My guess is it’s more attributable to the collapse of the Soviet Union than to anything else, but the anti-nuclear movement probably still played some nonzero role)
I’m sure it played some nonzero role, but is it anything like enough of an impact, and enough of a role to compensate for all the marginal harms of global warming because of stopping deployment of nuclear power (which they are definitely largely responsible for)?