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Pandora's Promise
Forbes Review
Excerpts:
What if you suspected that everything you knew about nuclear energy was wrong? What would you do?
Thats what faced some prominent died-in-the-wool anti-nuclear activists. What they did then is what smart and caring people do they researched the subject and made their own decision.
Academy Award nominee Robert Stone chronicles these transformations in a new movie called Pandoras Promise. It is a documentary about leading environmentalists that have changed their minds about nuclear energy because of concerns about climate change. They found that misinformation and outright lies about nuclear energy proliferated in an environmental movement that previously supported nuclear energy as a way out of a fossil fuel-dominated future.
That shift of the environmental establishment away from nuclear has, instead, cemented our fossil fuel future more than ever. We are on the verge of becoming a natural gas nation that will still use copious amounts of oil and coal. The poorly-considered drive to swap nuclear with natural gas and gas-dependent renewables will erase the recent benefits gained from replacing old coal plants with gas. This will cause CO2 emissions to rise higher than ever.
So are these icons of past and present environmentalism suddenly insane? Of course not. Theyve simply taken the time and effort to understand a complex subject like nuclear in relation to an even more complex subject like climate change.
Is considering nuclear energy politically dangerous for environmentalists? Does it prevent normally-smart public servants from considering the best path forward on climate change?
Indeed it is, and explains the swift and nasty response to Pandoras Promise from anti-nuclear groups and the expected rants from professional fear-mongerers. They make some interesting fictional points, but provide no real information, using the word science like a mythological sword whose power they recognize but dont understand.
We were brainwashed with a fear of nuclear during the Cold War. One can argue whether that served the larger purpose of helping to prevent nuclear war. But Pandoras Promise lets environmental scholars show us how to evolve our thinking so that we might achieve a sustainable future for all species and all environments on our beautiful planet.
You need to look inside Pandoras Promise.
Forbes Review
Excerpts:
What if you suspected that everything you knew about nuclear energy was wrong? What would you do?
Thats what faced some prominent died-in-the-wool anti-nuclear activists. What they did then is what smart and caring people do they researched the subject and made their own decision.
Academy Award nominee Robert Stone chronicles these transformations in a new movie called Pandoras Promise. It is a documentary about leading environmentalists that have changed their minds about nuclear energy because of concerns about climate change. They found that misinformation and outright lies about nuclear energy proliferated in an environmental movement that previously supported nuclear energy as a way out of a fossil fuel-dominated future.
That shift of the environmental establishment away from nuclear has, instead, cemented our fossil fuel future more than ever. We are on the verge of becoming a natural gas nation that will still use copious amounts of oil and coal. The poorly-considered drive to swap nuclear with natural gas and gas-dependent renewables will erase the recent benefits gained from replacing old coal plants with gas. This will cause CO2 emissions to rise higher than ever.
So are these icons of past and present environmentalism suddenly insane? Of course not. Theyve simply taken the time and effort to understand a complex subject like nuclear in relation to an even more complex subject like climate change.
Is considering nuclear energy politically dangerous for environmentalists? Does it prevent normally-smart public servants from considering the best path forward on climate change?
Indeed it is, and explains the swift and nasty response to Pandoras Promise from anti-nuclear groups and the expected rants from professional fear-mongerers. They make some interesting fictional points, but provide no real information, using the word science like a mythological sword whose power they recognize but dont understand.
We were brainwashed with a fear of nuclear during the Cold War. One can argue whether that served the larger purpose of helping to prevent nuclear war. But Pandoras Promise lets environmental scholars show us how to evolve our thinking so that we might achieve a sustainable future for all species and all environments on our beautiful planet.
You need to look inside Pandoras Promise.
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