Another Environmentalist for Nuclear Energy

Pete Geddes, program director for the Foundation for research on Economics and the Environment, had this to say about nuclear energy in a recent issue of the Bozeman Daily Chronicle:

All energy production has environmental impacts. For example, wind farms cause visual and noise pollution and kill birds. Our choices involve trading off among imperfect alternatives.

Is it time we rethink opposition to nuclear power? James Lovelock, promoter of the Gaia hypothesis, believes so. He writes: “Opposition to nuclear energy is based on irrational fear fed by Hollywood-style fiction, the Green lobbies and the media.… [N]uclear energy… 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. I entreat my friends… to drop their wrongheaded objection to nuclear energy.”

For more on James Lovelock, click here. For a previous post on Dr. Lovelock's recent speech at the Canadian Nuclear Association, click here. Thanks to Obsidian Wings for the link.