It’s time my fellow environmentalists take a step back from the hysteria and lose the absoluteist idealism. The world needs to a take a pragmatic look at it’s energy options.

Renewables are great, but they simply can’t do it all. We have a choice between nuclear fisison or fossil fuels for 80% of our energy. Between dwindling resources, climate change, and politial uncertainty in oil rich countries, that choice is simple.

Remember, the only country that ever met the requirements of Kyoto was France. They met the requirements the day it was passed because France gets 80% of it’s electricity from nuclear power.