There's an almost Trumpian aspect to it: Fuck around and find out. It applies to antinukes as much as it applies to Maggots.
Their seminal paper on the subject of energy was published over a decade ago:
Prevented Mortality and Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Historical and Projected Nuclear Power (Pushker A. Kharecha* and James E. Hansen Environ. Sci. Technol., 2013, 47 (9), pp 4889–4895)
They never stepped back from their advocacy, because, um, they were and are right.
Of course, we've had a lot of people here screaming for the industrialization of wilderness for solar and wind crap that did nothing to address the destruction of the planetary atmosphere that supported that wilderness and everything else on the planet.
These people ran around insipidly screaming like the bourgeois brats they are, bourgeois brats indifferent to the needs of future generations, that nuclear energy was "too expensive," but the destruction of the planetary atmosphere was not "too expensive."
Some of us need to stop whining about the outcome and look in the mirror.