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You’re not wrong at all.

But this is basically as radical of a suggestion as banning cars lol. We’d have to have affordable housing, jobs, social services, food and resources, etc. available for those trying to migrate into cities. Most US cities don’t even have those things for the people that already live there - almost always due to NIMBY regulations with some good old fashion bigotry mixed in.

We would basically have to first see a massive change in governance trends before this could be doable.

Of course, this is entirely ignoring the cultural challenges.

The DoD? No.

But I think you’re right that all energy forms should be nationalized. The only way humanity can continue to be the dominant species on earth is if we can declare a “war on pollution” and commit to it in the same way we could commit to actual war.

Fission and fusion reactors are really more like in-between renewable and non-renewable. Sure, it relies on materials that are finite, but there is way, way more of that material available in comparison to how much we need.

Making this distinction is necessary to un-spook people who have gone along with the panic induced by bad media and lazy engineering of the past.

Unfortunately, the people that need this reminder the most are also generally staunchly anti-intellectualism.

Layer 8 issues occur all the time.

Go far enough left and you get your guns back