05.24.04
Green Nuclear Split
If there is such a thing as heresy for the environmental movement, James Lovelock has become the chief heretic among his peers:
“I am a Green, and I entreat my friends in the movement to drop their wrongheaded objection to nuclear energy.”
Global warming is now advancing so swiftly that only a massive expansion of nuclear power as the world’s main energy source can prevent it overwhelming civilisation, the scientist and celebrated Green guru, James Lovelock, says.
His call will cause huge disquiet for the environmental movement. It has long considered the 84-year-old radical thinker among its greatest heroes, and sees climate change as the most important issue facing the world, but it has always regarded opposition to nuclear power as an article of faith. Last night the leaders of both Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth rejected his call.
If the Greens are serious about diminishing our usage of carbon burning for energy creation, they need to rethink their opposition to Lovelock’s proposal.
Leading Environmentalist Urges Radical Rethink on Climate Change
