Ganked from cipherpunk, The Top Ten Things Environmentalists Need To Learn. There are some difficult truths in here, and if the comments thread (250 and counting as of this writing) is any indication, many hard-core "well, we just have to force everyone to use less and then it'll all be okay" environmentalists would rather stick their fingers in their ears and sing "La la la" than face up to them. (What I found most appalling: the several people who screamed "UNDERGROUND COAL FIRES DON'T EXIST FIRE CAN'T BURN UNDERGROUND YOU'RE MAKING IT UP LEARN SOME SCIENCE." Um, tell that to the former residents of Centralia, PA, kthx.)

Something which the article doesn't outright state, but which is absolutely essential to understanding the economics of power generation, and in the end, economics at all, is this: where markets do not exist, people will create them. You cannot legislate a market away.

(No, I'm not saying that it's possible to create a market out of thin air for something that nobody wants. But if there is a good and somebody wants it, there is a market for that good, regardless of what the laws say. If there is a want and somebody figures out a way to fill it, there's another market.)

The author, btw, is unabashedly pro-nuclear. I'm glad there's more than one of us around.