It's also depressing (but also a little funny) that this whole time, the left has been like "We've gotta switch from fossil fuels to renewables/nuclear! Like, right now! Not in 2050, this needs to be an economic mobilization unlike anything we've yet seen in human history!" for like, at least the last couple decades if not longer, and everybody else has just been like "Haha, silly lefties, catastrophizing everything. The free market will surely work out in the long term and capitalism, meritocracy, and technocracy will save us."

And now we're in a situation where if most of Europe was already on renewable/nuclear energy, this entire crisis would be significantly less troublesome for Europe. It wouldn't be nothing, as you need natural gas for fertilizers and such, but it wouldn't have to be like, instant fucking recession or energy rationing or anything.

ngl it's also pretty depressing that these calls and movements to switch to renewables/nuclear, which are intensifying (albeit still not being taken especially seriously), aren't because people saw the increasingly dying world around them, but because we needed to save a bunch of Nazis in Ukraine rather than have a diplomatic solution with Russia that honestly wouldn't have been that hard to make if NATO just said "Okay, fine, we don't need literally every single country in Europe on our side, you can have Ukraine, we'll have the rest" and Ukraine just stopped bombarding the Donbass. Obviously it's more complicated than that due to the history and western imperialist and capitalist motivations etc etc but on a surface level, peace was actually fairly achievable.