The return of nuclear power in particular and the growing embrace in general of science and technology that earlier countercultural attitudes had shied away from. This anewed embrace of technology and acience is not done uncrtically and materialistically (like in the 1950s) but with a sense of skepticism and precaution in which the heritage of countercultural and leftist attitudes and ideas lives on.

So indeed, after 50-60 years of "countercultural skepticism" and "hedonist international left", we may have finally – of course "finally", in order to mark a point or phase of passage – come to a time in which "sustainable" and "environmental friendly" technology doesn't mean reactionary "small town romance" but becomes applicable to the level of an entire industry nation.

That is a conceptual and practical progress not achieved since the start of environmental movements till this day.

(And no, I don't have Stewart Brand in mind whom I find hopelessly locked up in his time. Naïve system thinking and creed in #technology is exactly the wrong direction.)