The proper answer to most economic questions is a larger pie. It is just a lot easier to divide a BIG pizza among a bunch of hungry children than it is to divide a small one. As a child in rural Tennessee I was aware of it and knew the symptoms. Never saw it. As to scrapie, I don't know anything at all that hasn't been in the literature recently.
Nuclear power is the most environmentally benign.
And forcing the ratepayers to pay what power costs is the simplest short term remedy. But they won't. And the madness will continue. We need more power plants and lots of them. But then I said that in my columns and articles 20 years ago.