Environmentalists protested Cassini/Huygens

I find it simply amazing that I can sit in the comfort of my home and
pull of a picture from the surface of Saturn's moon Titan. Unbelievable!

Yet, it almost didn't happen. Back in 1997, when Cassini/Huygens was
launched, environmentalists tried desperately to stop the launch. They
tried every means, politically and legally, to scuttle the probe. Then
they swarmed down to the launch site, waving signs, sputtering that the
probe was a danger to humanity. And all of this because Cassini/Huygens
had a plutonium power source on board.

I guess they want us to return to the good old hunter/gatherer days some
10,000 years ago. Gaia is offended by humanity's presence. Humans are a
cancer on this pristine planet, something to be cut out. This is the
dogma of the environmentalist/marxist movement.