The shutdown is Republicans fault, in fact, they're stupid ugly people that are villains in videogames.
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AVALANCHE's attack on Shinra amounted to a bee stinging a behemoth. In response, Shinra crushed their hideout under a city-sized plate. Barret even admits "saving the Planet" was an excuse—what he really wanted was revenge for Shinra burning his hometown to the ground.
Of course, they would know that if they'd actually played Final Fantasy VII*. Fucking tourists.
*OG only. The Compilation, including the Remake trilogy, is not canon.
And he's not actually saving the planet either.
The reactors aren't killing the planet. Sephiroth is. It's like these people never even finished the third disk. Seph is percolating in the crater making himself a god, guzzling up the life stream to do it. That's what is killing the planet just like that's how Jenova killed the planet she came from.
Final Fantasy 7 is a story about putting a stop to a sentient galactic virus.
I think the reactors were still hurting the planet, just less than Sephiroth/Jenova.
Here's why I think not.
Because it's just magic. Materia are just solidified, crystalized Mako in that universe. That lets regular humans use magic. They don't entirely explain the process behind it, but the "what" of is pretty clear.
The Cetra could use magic, which is drawing on the life stream and using it, naturally. This didn't harm the planet, and if did the Cetra wouldn't have done it because they worshipped the planet.
Magic isn't a permanent expenditure of the life stream. You don't cast Firaga and then there are just a few less total souls for everybody to share, forever. It filters it's way back to the greater whole of the planet by whatever means.
So using it for electricity wouldn't be a permanent expenditure either.
I fuzzily recall a piece of exposition that natural Materia would take years to crystalize. However, Shinra's Mako extraction and Materia manufacturing put a heavy strain on the Lifestream to where it doesn't have time to replenish itself.
That's why the area surrounding Midgar (and Mako reactors in general) is a barren wasteland, and it's the first thing you notice once you leave Midgar to explore the world proper.
With names taken right from the Zohar even. Make Grug think.
Its always funny to see Lefties try to champion AVALANCHE's actions as if they game itself doesn't immediately make it clear in no uncertain terms that not only did they accomplish nothing but they caused infinite suffering and death to everyone around them who got caught in the retaliation.
Its actually a perfect representation of how fruitless terrorism usually is, if not fully evil because of how many innocents you nonconsensually dragged into your little war. But that also criticizes the Lefties a little too accurately, so they can't comprehend it.