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The green lobby is so fanatically anti-nuclear they'd prefer we continue burning coal than switch to nuclear. We could have stopped burning coal decades ago if it weren't for them standing in the way of progress.

Now they want us to switch to expensive, inconsistent, polluting renewable. I say polluting because renewable cause significant pollution during mining of the vast resources required to construct of large wind/solar farms, cause further pollution during manufacture and then yet more during disposal after their short lifespan is up.

Despite the obvious benefits of nuclear, the green lobby continue with their irrationality. A quick google search reveals an anti-nuclear article by Earthjustice, who carried out this study:

https://earthjustice.org/blog/2009-september/renewable-nuclear

The green lobby's anti-nuclear stance has done massive damage to the environment, and for that reason alone we should ignore them. We need an adult debate based on rational decision making, not fanatical, tree-hugging hippies.

I live in Brisbane Australia and I bought a new Golf diesel 2011 model, goes like hell, great economy and lower pollution rating etc than any of the petrol locals could produce at the time. Better value for money, better car, easier on the environment... everyone a winner. Given a choice I will never buy a petrol engine again, the diesels are just that much better. At the time I took a bit of interest in the pollution and efficiency side of things and read around and stumbled upon a couple of links about the big polluters..... http://earthjustice.org/featur... http://www.theguardian.com/env... There is plenty more info out there, you just have to want to be informed. Happy reading guys and gals, I hope Santa is good to you all this year.

People problems are the same in power generation whether it's nuke or coal. You have the very same lapses in inspections and maintenance in both. The effects can be arguably just as disastrous. Coal ash sludge is toxic and it will pretty much permanently contaminate river- and lakebeds. Cleanup requires digging shit up, just like in a nuclear "spill": you remove the material and move it somewhere where the NIMBY crowd is thin enough. Kid you not. Never mind that coal ash is toxic due to heavy metal content, but it's also the worst kind of radioactive waste: volumunous low-level waste. High-level waste is relatively easy to handle, in comparison.

you can certainly sue your local municipality for not cleaning up its air.

That's what happens when you get a monopoly (or duopoly in the coke/pepsi case) selling your beverages. In other places, when it became a true monopoly water water became so expensive the poor couldn't afford it

• Conservation International
• Defenders of Wildlife
• Earthjustice
• National Audubon Society
• National Wildlife Federation
• Natural Resources Defense Council
• The Nature Conservancy
• The Ocean Conservancy
• The Trust for Public Land
• World Resources Institute
• World Wildlife Fund