This gets into the fascinating sort of two-sided attack on the economy that seems to be growing. On the one side you have Malthusians who want to constrain growth as much as possible, often by targeting energy usage. Then you have Keynesians on the other side saying that we need to produce more, but don't usually think quite as long or hard about what quality of stuff to produce and go for whatever is politically viable.

Together they create the exact problem you wonderfully stated here. Nations pivot away from nuclear power in favor of heavy subsidies to everything else, while the rest of the people must foot the long term bill of ignoring sound energy foundations.

Great post, thanks for joining the Meta Econ Takeover ;)