Between a coal and frack place

In the absence of nuclear power people won’t tolerate blackouts, they’ll rather open coal plants.

Datteln IV Power Plant, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Image Credit ALliance/Jochen Tack

One of the big reasons why we haven’t been able to deal better with our environmental issues is because the mainstream position about them is split mostly between two groups: A group denies the existence of the problems, tries to minimize them when it can’t be denied. The other group does acknowledge the existence…