Another Win-Win Situation for the CHL
A tempest in a teapot is brewing over some comments made by James Lovelock (better known as the loony Gaia guy). He sees nuclear power as humanity's best bet for combating global warming. We at the CHL like nuclear power in the long term. Accidents eventually happen, terrorists eventually gain control of power plants, and nuclear proliferation eventually accelerates. The only downside is that the best effects are highly localized (to part of a hemisphere, for example). If we can't have a runaway greenhouse, at least we could have a nuclear nightmare, no?

A former Labour energy minister and the nuclear industry both welcomed the call by the scientist James Lovelock yesterday for a massive expansion of the nuclear industry to combat global warming. They also forecast that Professor Lovelock's dramatic call, in yesterday's Independent, would force more environmentalists to consider whether nuclear power really posed a greater threat to humanity than climate change - and that they too would eventually agree with the celebrated scientist.

Professor Lovelock's radical suggestion provoked widespread debate yesterday, with both Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace rejecting his claims. However Brian Wilson, who stood down as energy minister last year to become the Prime Minister's special representative on overseas trade, said Professor Lovelock had had the courage to address the question of global warming honestly. "I hope that many others will follow him in questioning the basis of their hostility to nuclear power in the age of global warming."
- nostradamusfunkadelic, 12:17 PM | |