James Lovelock points out that any rational response to the threat of global warming has to embrace nuclear power:
Opposition to nuclear energy is based on irrational fear fed by Hollywood-style fiction, the Green lobbies and the media. These fears are unjustified, and nuclear energy from its start in 1952 has proved to be the safest of all energy sources. We must stop fretting over the minute statistical risks of cancer from chemicals or radiation. Nearly one third of us will die of cancer anyway, mainly because we breathe air laden with that all pervasive carcinogen, oxygen. If we fail to concentrate our minds on the real danger, which is global warming, we may die even sooner, as did more than 20,000 unfortunates from overheating in Europe last summer.
So who’s really to blame for the low priority we’ve placed on nukes here in the US, the filthy corporations or the scruffy hippies? I think we all know the answer to that.
Via Dan Gillmor.