Russia Set To Build Eight Nuclear Power Plants In Iran

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5. If Iran has nuclear power plants then they don't have to burn gas for their own power...

...which maybe means more gas for Russia's Gazprom to sell to nuclear-adverse regions of Western Europe.

Clever, but not the sort of outcome any progressive person would choose.

Nobody has figured out how to run a high energy industrialized consumer society without fossil fuels or nuclear power, not even in places with large hydro-power resources. (From an environmentalist perspective dams suck anyways.)

Even if wind turbines and solar panels were free I don't think an industrialized consumer society is possible and I'm not holding my breath for cheap fusion power.

But I do think a low energy, comfortable, non-consumer society powered entirely by renewable sources could be possible if everyone is allowed and encouraged to practice birth control.

Otherwise with modern medicine people breed and increase their population like animals, which isn't surprising because we are animals, and soon there are more of us than the natural environment can support.