"Paramedics to the planet"

Over the weekend, Andrew Brown of the Guardian interviewed James Lovelock, founder of the Gaia theory and one of the world's leading environmentalists who have come out in support of nuclear energy:

His strong support of nuclear power, though, made him a heretic to many Greens. Nuclear power, he says, is much safer than the alternatives, and desperately needed to help us survive the effects of global warming. "To save ourselves we need to have a proper nuclear programme. The Greens don't seem to understand that without electricity, civilisation would collapse. Just imagine London without electricity. Within three weeks it would be like Darfur." He has no time for the long-term arguments about waste and safety: in a crisis, you do what you need to survive. "We are like paramedics to the planet. We just have to stabilise things."

Thanks to Bloguitica for the pointer.

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