{"id":11702,"date":"2013-07-12T11:02:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-12T15:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/collideascape\/?p=11702"},"modified":"2013-07-12T11:02:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-12T15:02:00","slug":"which-would-you-choose-nuclear-or-coal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=11702","title":{"rendered":"Which Would You Choose: Nuclear or Coal?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Buy Ambien Online Overnight Earlier this year, I wrote a piece<\/a> for Slate <\/em>that probed the argument for nuclear power, which, in a nutshell, is based on the climate change imperative. I didn’t sugarcoat the serious obstacles to a nuclear build-out. I also said that solar and wind should be ramped up. At the same time, I sided with realists who don’t see renewables meeting the world’s voracious energy needs. So I wrote:<\/p>\n

Order Clonazepam Online Bill McKibben says we need to \u201cdo the math<\/a>,\u201d which is to take the known fossil fuel reserves that oil and gas companies expect to tap and add that to the carbon already trapped in the atmosphere. The total will end up leading to catastrophic climate change. It\u2019s a powerfully frightening equation. But we also need to do the math for the energy equation, which should be equally frightening.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

https://rgprincipal.com/company-overview/ This is a central point in Pandora’s Promise<\/a><\/em>, the pro-nuclear documentary that has pissed off a lot of greens, some who have crudely fulminated against it (and a few of the featured protagonists) without even bothering to see it.<\/p>\n

https://worklivelaos.com/old_morning_market/ But as Andy Revkin notes<\/a> at Dot Earth, “not all foes of nuclear energy are in attack mode.” He points to Terry Tempest Williams, a highly regarded environmental author and activist, who has given a thoughtful response to Pandora’s Promise<\/em> in an exchange<\/a> with journalist Mark Hertsgaard at the Nation<\/em> magazine. Their dialogue is well worth reading. While Williams says that the film “challenged my thinking after thirty years of antinuclear activism,” Hertsgaard remains stubbornly small-minded and counters with ad hominem arguments, one of them so embarrassingly strained it should be read in its entirety to be appreciated:<\/p>\n

Questioning one\u2019s assumptions is a good thing, but I have to point out that this documentary\u2019s pro-nuclear argument is neither as original nor as brave as its protagonists seem to think. Watching\u00a0Pandora\u2019s Promise<\/em>\u00a0reminded me that the first time I heard the phrase \u201cglobal warming\u201d was thirty years ago\u2026 from a nuclear \u2028industry executive.<\/p>\n

https://blackhillsballoons.com/experience/ This was in the early 1980s, and the industry was in the doldrums. This executive told me that a number of factors, including something called global warming, would eventually cause citizens and public officials alike to recognize that the world faced a \u201cnuclear imperative,\u201d as he and other executives called it. This is the same message the industry has spent untold amounts of money promoting in recent years. There is no hint in\u00a0Pandora\u2019s Promise<\/em>\u00a0that the film\u2019s director or its protagonists are aware of this history\u2014or, for that matter, that they\u2019re in the pay of the industry. The fact is, however, that they and the film are playing roles in a drama written long ago by the very economic interests that would profit from a nuclear revival.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Buy Ativan Online Without Prescription What follows after that is a back-and-forth in which Williams admirably struggles\u00a0to reconcile her long-held anti-nuclear position with uncomfortable truths raised in Pandora’s Promise<\/em>, while Hertsgaard continues to insist the film is doing industry’s bidding. She debates in good faith, he maligns the character of the film’s protagonists. The contrast between the two of them is often fascinating, because they essentially share the same worldview. The key difference is that Williams is willing to reexamine aspects of hers that she senses are outdated. This contrast between open-minded and small mindedness leads to one striking exchange when,\u00a0at one point, Williams articulates a big conundrum:<\/p>\n

https://growthjourneytherapy.com/methods/narrative-therapy/ What energy sources can we employ that do the least harm to life on earth and at the same time can meet the expanding needs of the human family?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Buy Clonazepam Without Prescription Hertsgaard replies:<\/p>\n

Buy Clonazepam Without Prescription If our options really were as simple as\u00a0Pandora\u2019s Promise<\/em>\u00a0maintains\u2014either go nuclear or incinerate the planet with more coal\u2014it\u2019d be a tough call.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Tramadol Online Purchase That’s an astonishing thing to say. (Germany, it should be noted<\/a>, has chosen coal.) One climate blogger said<\/a>\u00a0that reading that made his hair stand up.<\/p>\n

I have argued<\/a> that “there is a battle underway for the soul of environmentalism,” between<\/a>\u00a0green traditionalists and green modernists. The former is stuck in a time-warp, trapped in a 40-year old environmentalist black hat\/white hat mindset, while the latter is willing to rethink old assumptions, like Williams is doing now with her views on nuclear power.<\/p>\n

https://worklivelaos.com/black_canyon/ This clash is between one side that forecloses the use of certain technologies (such as nuclear power and genetic engineering) because they cannot be reconciled with a hardened ideology. The other side, as I argued<\/a> last year in Slate<\/em>, is less ideological and more pragmatic.<\/p>\n

Pandora’s Promise<\/em><\/a>, a documentary about how nuclear power can help address climate change, has widened a growing cleavage in environmentalism. \u00a0This split raises important questions: Can the old green guard and newer breed of eco-pragmatists find common ground? Can they work together to address complex environmental challenges and help make the planet more resilient and sustainable?<\/p>\n

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