It's time for the environmental movement to drop its irrational taboo against nuclear energy and consider it as a part of a strategy to deal with a threat that the movement already recognizes as being quite present. If the environmental movement fails to either do this or to find a better solution, the movement will have failed. Global warming is not an issue we can fail to address.UPDATE: Meet Peter Byrnes:
[T]he key really is to lessen and eliminate dependence on foreign energy sources . . . Alternative sources are an option, but wind, solar, and biomass energies are so outrageously expensive and scarce that it would be idiocy to suggest them. Nuclear energy is not only cheap, but clean. Just ask the French. And no, they are not meltdowns waiting to happen. Our naval fleet is loaded with ships powered exclusively by nuclear power, which has proven safe.Technorati tags: Nuclear Energy Environment Energy Politics Technology Economics
Because while people may be pricing in the cost of gas, a shortage would create very different problems. And those kinds of things are neither priced in nor easily absorbed by the economy.
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