The problem with the watermelons (green outside, red inside), is that they're a runaway psyops from the cold war time KGB. It's basically a headless chicken that keeps running in the courtyard.
More interesting would be the reason why nuclear power has not been more developed BEFORE renewables could be considered. And the reason is:
1- civil nuclear power has been developed using uranium instead of thorium since this produces plutonium as by-product, which is useful to build nuclear weapon.
2- we want to prevent nuclear weapon proliferation, therefore we have to prevent proliferation of uranium-based civil nuclear power.
The solution is to start to develop thorium-based civil nuclear power. This doesn't lead to military-use or ecologically problematic by-products, so it can be used everywhere on the planet.