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Creator of the Gaia Hypothesis Urges Nuclear Power
SteamyMobile writes "Professor James Lovelock, creator the Gaia Hypothesis and long-time intellectual leader of the Green movement, says that global warming is a dire threat, more urgent than was previously realized. He compares the threat of global warming with the threat of the Nazis in 1938, and says that in both cases, the Left was not able to grasp the urgency of the situation and see the necessary solution. What is the necessary solution to stop the global warming problem? He says it's nuclear power. Needless to say, the Greens don't agree with him, and he chides them as having irrational phobias of a safer, cleaner energy sources. Even if the "Left" isn't fully aware of the urgency of the world's energy problems, it seems like Slashdot is."
If these damm environmentalists hadn't been whinning about nuclear for so long, we WOULDN'T HAVE THE PROBLEM TO BEGIN WITH! Yeah, such an original solution, i knew these ppl would solve it for the rest of us!
Why yes, i hate demagogy...
"If God created us in his own image we have more than reciprocated." - Voltaire
Kind of anyway...
Soon it's going to be a choice between nuclear and sitting in the dark.
"Physics is to math as sex is to masturbation." -R. Feynman
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> And what happens with French waste?
They go into politics.
Are you really trying to make make a comparison between the amount of energy it takes to mine a quantity of uranium as opposed to the energy output released by the same. Please take your green logic back to the commune or at least respond with something semi scientific.
Did anyone actually read the article?
The guy is 84 years old. Now, I'm not anti-"old-fart" and maybe he's still got his squash together, but before I start taking advice from an 84 year-old, I want to see them either in person or on TV to get a feel for how together they are.
I know a lot of 80+ year-olds that I know aren't the kind of people you want to be taking advice from. A lot of them still have it together, but a good number don't. I'd definitely hesitate to make a radical change in the world's energy production plans based on a single 84 year-old's ideas.
it is too late, were all doomed, even if the USA did clean up its act, consider all the third world nations with their unregulated industry and the burning of the rain forests...
good-bye planet earth, it is nice to know the good people. and to all the evil selfish greedy pigs i hope i get to see you suffer like you made others suffer...
lolololololol, are you a complete fucking moron?
The graphs show we're at the ABSOLUTE PEAK of historical maximums, and you want to say this is evidence we should not be concerned about the effect of mankind??
Irregardless of whether the PRIMARY cause of warming is cyclical, if there's even the slightest chance that mankind is producing a SECONDARY effect, we obviously need to be very very concerned -- because we're at the top of the cycle any secondary addition to the effect by mankind is going to put us into a new, historically unprecedented world of pain.
How can you you possibly look at the those graphs and come to the conclusion they indicate mankind's potential effects on global warming are irrelevant and no source of concern? The ability of people to endlessly create new ways to be utterly stupid never ceases to amaze me.
Oooooo "Consumerican"... lol ZING!
What if, actually, what I "think" is correct, and as time goes by we'll work our way to better energy efficiency and life will continue to get better, as it has for hundreds of years? What if the doomsayers are full of shit, like they have ALWAYS been?
lol "consumerican", what a joke. Yes, let's find out. 10 years on, everything is the same, and you people will still be whining about something...
He was quoting Homer Simpson, though, who said those exact words. He knows how it was pronounced... I think he was just making fun.
Disclaimer: IANAL. This post is, however, legal advice, and creates an attorney-client relationship.