You can't claim to be an environmentalist and be anti-nuclear energy at the same time

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Here, let the german Deputy of the Federal Chancellor and Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection shut you up. Starts at 24:56.
- But to catch some downvotes as well:
  
  You can't claim to be an environmentalist and not be vegan at the same time
  
  Thats still unpopular but at least it's true. :)
  
  So have a few hens out back eating all the ticks in the yard and supplying me with eggs is hurting the environment in a way that is terrible? I'd have to look more into that, but really they surely can't be as gaseous as cows.
  
  I've heard of a spherical cow, but a gaseous cow is new to me :)
  
  Well, there are still valid ethical and health reasons not to eat their eggs. Chicken feed always contains soy from rainforest-areas as well. But if your backyard eggs are the only animal products you use, then I'd say that you're already doing pretty good.
  
  I used to have them when I lived in an area that didn't care. Was hoping to go back to having them when I retire one day. Didn't expect to hear they were a bad choice. Thanks for the response
- I don't speak German. What's he saying there?
  
  My English isn't good enough to translate it all in detail, but these are the basics:
  Germany shut down all nuclear power plants but 3, which will shut down soon. So we will be nuclear free in the future, no going back from there. Then he talks about the nuclear power plants in France, which are all ailing and will be extremely expensive to repair (at least 1 billion euros per power plant). They are only still working because they belong to the state, otherwise they would have been insolvent long ago. A newly planned nuclear power plant is already so expensive to plan that most investors have backed out. If this power plant is ever built, it will supply the most expensive electricity ever produced in Europe.

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