Mickey Kiehl stood up. "I think we lost it when we didn’t go for nuclear power. They coulda designed much better plants than they did, and a hell of a lot better disposal system, but they didn’t because of that moral taint from the Bomb. People were scared to death of any kind of ‘radiation’ even when a few extra curies aren’t really dangerous. I’d say 1950s. When the atomic-energy people hid behind the military-security bullshit instead of really trying to make fission work safely for real people in real life. So we got all-natural CO 2 instead. And the CO 2 ruined everything. I’ve said enough."