Science

It's been touted since the 1940s as a way to get rid of oil and coal. But it not only didn't, they grew even faster because the same fucking people are about all of it: Military-industrial.

They're about it because it's a source of political power, not an economical or environmentally friendly source of electrical power. It's non-renewable, meaning they can profit heavily from it. It involves potentially very dangerous materials, so they can demand taxpayer money to handle and guard it. It's labor-intensive, so they can pretend they're doing society a favor when they have to hire so many people to manage it, even though they're just giving back a fraction of people's own tax money. And even though it's not weaponizable itself, it supports the infrastructure for weapons.

And it's not even a good idea strategically, since it's a net economic drain.

The same money invested in renewables over that time would probably have taken fossil fuels off the market by now. But most of the people advocating it don't even want renewables. Their saint, Ronald Reagan, infamously ripped out Jimmy Carter's solar panels from the White House just to put a point on that.