Change my mind.
The road to you know where is paved with good intentions? Yeah especially when that road is built upon a foundation of malice.
These guys were self proclaimed "environmentalists". When infact they were just a bunch of selfish, entitled, unwashed, dope smoking, anti populationist hippies who were worried about California's population doubling in the next 20 years or so and they didnt want to share. Thats it.
They figured the best way to stop that California's population growth was to block water infrastructure creation and block electrical power generation build out, especially if it's hydro and nuclear.
The damage they did 60 years ago still persists to this day. Well they failed and most of them are dead, so HA!
Then once they gained success and notoriety ultimately they became corrupt, morally and financially.
In the ultimate betrayal, the anti nukes took money from the coal power lobby to get the anti nukes to push coal as the safe alternative. It's a dam modern Greek tragedy. Blocking dams to prevent people from having water and electricity, blocking nuclear to keep people from having unlimited clean safe energy, taking money from the coal Barrons to build dirty 1960s straight out the smoke stack coal power plant and these were Sierra club guys (who made friends of the earth when sierra club wasn't extreme enough). Wow.
Environmentalists are some of the worst people on earth. I say these United States would be better off if they never existed.
We would have more hydroelectric, more water, more nuclear, less coal.