Non-negotiable in any right mind

Few errors of mankind are as straightforward and simple as the use of nuclear energy. Its long-term dangers far outweigh its short-term benefits. We have a moral responsibility to protect future generations from those dangers. This conclusion was already reached among well-educated, right-minded people in the late nineteen sixties and early nineteen seventies.

First and foremost because it is criminally irresponsible to litter the planet with poisons that will remain dangerous for obscene periods of time. (When nuclear advocates say that they are going to put the waste in multi-billion storage facilities that will remain perfectly safe for ever, they are, of course, talking rubbish, which they have proven very convincingly by not building a single one of these marvels in the decades since this madness began).

Nuclear power is also unacceptable because it enables the construction of weapons that are so insanely evil that their very existence mocks any belief in human goodness.

Finally it should never be forgotten that energy is not a basic necessity. What we really need is food, water, breathable air and (occasionally) shelter, but all the other things that clutter our lives are luxuries, artificially created wants that we can do without, if we must.