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Environmentalists Coming Around to Nuclear Power?
Heywood J. Blaume writes "In a Washington Post editorial Patrick Moore, a founder of Greenpeace, now says he was wrong about opposing nuclear power 30 years ago. In the article he addresses common myths about nuclear power, and puts forth the position that nuclear power is the only feasible, affordable power source that can solve today's growing environmental and energy policy issues. From the article: 'Thirty years on, my views have changed, and the rest of the environmental movement needs to update its views, too, because nuclear energy may just be the energy source that can save our planet from another possible disaster: catastrophic climate change.'"
Nuclear power will probably get much safer the day America no longer has a president who thinks it's spelled 'nucular'...
And I drive 55 miles to work each direction.
And I hate you for this.
fuck you.
> Now I'm curious how long it will be before the same people start realizing that they have been duped about global warming
Some believe global warming is a natural process, that we're merely still coming out of the last ice age. There's room for some debate on the subject. Only the flat-earthers and liars with vested interests actually deny it's happening at all. Forget the scientific theory -- the deniers don't even have the data on their side.
Done with slashdot, done with nerds, getting a life.
You are everything that is wrong with the world.
You might believe this, but the fact is that many of the jackasses braying the loudest about anthropogenic global warming evidently do not.
Robert F Kennedy Jr. has been piously lecturing us rubes about environmental correctness for lo these many years, but still flies around in private jets, and is doing his best to scuttle the offshore wind farm in Nantucket Sound because it spoils the view from his yacht.
Laurie David and Barbara Streisand and a hundred more Hollywood dingbats are full of coercive Luddite prescriptions for us little people in flyover country, but can't seem give up their Gulfstream V jets and limousines and 20,000 sq. ft. mansions with sixteen air conditioner units.
Ariana Huffington loves to badger the common man about global warming, but is addicted to private jets and fancy cars up the wazoo. Al Gore? Ditto, plus has four children, doubling the footprint of himself and his wife on Earth's limited resources. And of course the Kennedys breed like rats in a granary too.
Listening to these people hectoring us rednecks and hicks, you'd think they actually believed there was some kind of serious problem, but their actions say otherwise, loud and clear. If these dumb shit lefties think that dismantling modern civilization to prevent warming is so important, I say let them go first, or shut the fuck up.
Unless these limousine liberal loudmouths begin walking the walk, I am going to go on believing that the whole thing is a conspiracy by the authoritarian collectivist Left to gain by subterfuge and propaganda that which has been loudly and clearly repudiated at the ballot box.
-ccm
Too much Law; not enough Order.
Ok sorry, reading on, he writes, "The only practical approach to the issue of nuclear weapons proliferation is to put it higher on the international agenda and to use diplomacy and, where necessary, force to prevent countries or terrorists from using nuclear materials for destructive ends." Force to prevent countries from what?
People don't seem to quite grasp that the only country in the world to have used nuclear weapons and still possesses lots of nuclear weaponsm, is not even able to run a decent democracy, with Bush, the Torturer in Chief at the head.
Mr. Patrick Moore is definitely unreliable.
Sorry.
Stephan
http://stephan.sugarmotor.org