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With no changes to our current climate crisis policy, economic development is at high risk on our current path. Already built infrastructure is at high risk of being destroyed as well as being outdated by inadequacy to changing conditions and requiring rebuilding to keep our communities safe. Businesses like farms will face higher losses from variable conditions, and we will all be subject to higher disaster tolls.

Uh ok, propose silly straw men that have nothing to do with the proposals of the Green New Deal and declare them all unworkable.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-10/french-power-costs-will-rise-if-renewables-are-sidestepped

France will save 39 billion euros ($44.5 billion) if it refrains from building 15 new nuclear plants by 2060, and bets instead on renewable energy sources to replace its all it's aging atomic facilities.

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612564/chinas-losing-its-taste-for-nuclear-power-thats-bad-news/

The country has the capacity to build 10 to 12 nuclear reactors a year. But though reactors begun several years ago are still coming online, the industry has not broken ground on a new plant in China since late 2016, according to a recent World Nuclear Industry Status Report.

Officially China still sees nuclear power as a must-have. But unofficially, the technology is on a death watch. Experts, including some with links to the government, see China’s nuclear sector succumbing to the same problems affecting the West: the technology is too expensive, and the public doesn’t want it.

If China with it's significant authoritarian regulatory advantages can't operate modern recently built plants cheaply, then western areas with higher regulation costs don't have much of a chance, and operators of commercial nuclear power companies in the US have said as much.

Greenpeace has no sway in China. The only plants being built there now are one last one of their own design, and that’s obviously to maintain intern nuclear experience to crossover with weapons development and maintenance.

Nope even China and France who did the smart thing and built fleets of nuclear plants have concluded that they're too expensive and the renewables are not only up to the task, but cheaper and faster to build.