Greenpeace Founder: More Nukes is Good Nukes
Never thought I’d see this:
Greenpeace founder Patrick Moore says there is no proof global warming is caused by humans, but it is likely enough that the world should turn to nuclear power - a concept tied closely to the underground nuclear testing his former environmental group formed to oppose.
The chemistry of the atmosphere is changing, and there is a high-enough risk that “true believers” like Al Gore are right that world economies need to wean themselves off fossil fuels to reduce greenhouse gases, he said.
“It’s like buying fire insurance,” Moore said. “We all own fire insurance even though there is a low risk we are going to get into an accident.”
The only viable solution is to build hundreds of nuclear power plants over the next century, Moore told the Boise Metro Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday. There isn’t enough potential for wind, solar, hydroelectric, and geothermal or other renewable energy sources, he said.
I still hold that global warming is probably not happening to the extent the alarmists claim, but I’ve been long in favor of a crash nuclear program to end reliance on imported oil and coal-fired power plants…and, heck, if the enviro-whackos really want to un-dam some of those rivers, then the electrical power can be replaced by nuclear power plants. We’ve even got the place to put them where NIMBY’s are unlikely to complain - the Nevada Test Site; its already radioactive, after all, and most monitoring of the plant can be done remotely (naturally, we Nevadan’s will demand a quid pro quo here…some sort of surcharge on the rest of the nation which would, oh, cover about double our State budget - about $2.5 billion per year - so that we can have a gold-plated health and education system, and no taxes…).
Environmental problems must be tackled with common sense and hard science - which means that 99% of environmentalists will have to be excluded from any part in the debate. Nuclear power is cheap, safe and renewable, and we’ve been the world’s biggest dunderheads for following the “no nukes” demands of the late 70’s all the way into the early 21st century. Time to put aside such childish things, and start acting like adults in matters environmental and energy.
11 comments April 25th, 2008
