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>>12081614
Its because a some of them are emotionally attached the idea of some great struggle, a fight filled with meaning and sacrifice (or at least making other people sacrifice). An easy fix takes that away from them.

Likewise, there are plenty of 'environmentalist' who want to use it as an excuse to reshape the economy, culture, and general society towards ends they find desirable. For example, consider a politician who wants everyone to live in dense cities, and has been using climate change as justification for high fuel & electrical taxes to make having a big house in the suburbs or rural areas more expensive to manipulate people into moving out of those areas. Cheap, clean fusion plants powering electric cars that aren't tiny cuckboxes (see Tesla), and efficient household heat pumps throw a wrench in those plans.