“It Only Produces Clean Energy”—The Unseriousness of Climate Activism
You know how the climatistas are always saying we must “follow the science”? Let’s have a look at this call in the Financial Times to embrace nuclear power:
Letter: EU must include nuclear power in its list of sustainable sources
Nuclear power is the single biggest source of low carbon electricity in Europe today and is recognised in many of the scenarios assessed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the International Energy Agency and other organisations as having a critical role to play in responding to the climate emergency . . . It is therefore vital that nuclear is included in the EU’s new classification system for environmentally sustainable activities. . .
[P]rogress is being blocked by several countries, including Germany, which claim nuclear should be excluded because of their concerns about nuclear waste. This is in spite of clear evidence that nuclear waste does not and will not cause harm to sustainability objectives. Nuclear energy displaces fossil fuel use, with significant air pollution and climate benefits. Without nuclear, there will be 500m tonnes of extra CO2 emissions every year in Europe, which is more than the emissions of UK or France alone. Without nuclear, our action on climate will be more difficult, more expensive, and more likely to fail. The real harm done will be to Europe’s ambition to achieve net zero by 2050.
The letter is signed by James Hansen and dozens of other prominent figures in the climate science and policy community. So, will climate activists embrace nuclear power?
Didn’t think so. “It only produces clean energy.” Let that sink in for a while. Though I suppose we ought to hear from Time magazine’s Person of the Year before we pass judgment.
UPDATE: It appears the Tweeter in question here, Zack Kanter, is something of a Titania McGrath figure, proving once again that it is hard to tell the difference these days between droll parody and the literal beliefs of the left. For it is the case that Naomi Klein, for example, lumped pro-nuclear people like James Hansen as “climate deniers” a couple years ago, and the underlying article Kanter links to is in fact by St. Greta of Thunberg and two of her schoolmate peers, making the general case that climate is about everything else but energy technology.
And there you have it.
“..it’s not just about the environment”
It’s about everything else that they think is wrong with the world.
It’s the latest vehicle for communism & globalism. The amazing thing is how easy it was to set up.
A few dishonest scientists, the normal woke protesters & a mass of poorly educated children convinced that the end is near.
“A few dishonest scientists, the normal woke protesters & a mass of poorly educated children convinced that the end is near.”
The fuckers think they are right about everything to do with climate change……
My question is, How long have we got left..?
Over the past 40 years the ideologues have infiltrated every aspect of our lives: science, education, justice, police media, government. Now they are instilling that ideology in the young through our education system and universities. Climate change is the vehicle they have chosen. If you are a good little socialist soldier you are encouraged and promoted within. The rest of us are the “haters and wreakers” or a “basket of deplorables” What we are told cannot be trusted to be real so we have to sieve the propaganda, weigh it up, check the facts, discuss it and then decide it’s all FAKE NEWS!!! That is why they want to shut down our freedom of speech so we cannot disseminate the truth from the propaganda.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZHp4JLWjNw
Spot-on, waikatogirl.
That’s why I post all over the place – here, Youtube and anywhere else – about the German leftist scumbag Rudi Dutschke and his “long march through the institutions” which is how this all started.
Our newspaper reports this evening of a secondary student deputation presenting a petition to our Council seeking that a climate emergency be declared. One Councillor, speaking in supporting the petitioners, wondered why we are spending on a flood bank protection scheme (raising the bank level) instead of climate change.
Incredible. This Councillor was only recently re-elected. Lucky to be so I suspect. He made his profound comment faced by the students weeping while expressing their concerns about extinction………
The Councillors made soothing noises but did not make the decision requested and retained an approach to take account of climate change as the project and general work proceeds. I would like to think this was a considered view rather than a confused response as indicated by the report.. It left the petitioners weeping to the media where they made front page vowing to return, perhaps to set up some strikes for next year. Not sure how such an approach will positively influence anything useful.
Greta Thunberg was noted as their inspiration. Greta and some of the teaching staff I assume. There are some evil toss pots out there promoting apocalypse and doom and that seems to remain a substantial issue.
Test.test.
WordPress are insisting on updating the site. Last time they did this it fucked up the edit comment function.
Testing it again.
Might be okay this time.
The Swiss are shutting down their nuclear power plants
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2019/12/switzerland-shuts-down-nuclear-reactor-the-first-of-five.html
That is good news after Chernobyl and Fukushima they should not be allowed.
Imagine one goin wrong in some third world country.
And the cost of de-commissioning them is horrendous.
But I am sure that more are being built around the world.