Should we farm wild animals to prevent disease pandemics? Do we need more intensified agriculture, or less?
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Do we need more or less intensified farming to prevent future pandemics?
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The positive, peaceful, and humanistic “Stand Up for Nuclear” events last Sunday stood in contrast to the violent protests by apocalyptic Extinction Rebellion (XR) activists who blocked the London subway system three days earlier.
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Like many Californians, I was anti-nuclear for most of my life. In the late 1990s, I helped to save California’s last ancient redwoods still in private hands, kill a proposed radioactive waste repository at Ward Valley, and advocate for renewables.
I changed my mind about nuclear energy after experiencing the limitations of renewables and learning the facts, including from two of my idols, the climate scientist James Hansen and Whole Earth Catalog founder Stewart Brand, who over 10 years ago declared that we needed nuclear energy to prevent global warming.
Read MoreAn Interview with Earth Innovation Founder, Dan Nepstad
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Thank you for all of your help making Environmental Progress’s third year (!) a huge success!
Can you believe all that EP and the pro-nuclear movement accomplished in 2018?
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We are writing as scientists, scholars, and concerned citizens to warn you of a persistent anti-nuclear bias in the recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report on keeping global temperatures from rising 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels.
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Nuclear power is in trouble. What should be done? The conventional wisdom holds that a techno-fix, like a radically new design, or new construction techniques, will save nuclear. But such a view assumes that nuclear’s underlying problems are technical. They’re not. Public acceptance remains the main obstacle to the future of nuclear. How can public acceptance be addressed? And what role in particular might women have to play? In this talk to Women in Nuclear, Canada, EP President Michael Shellenberger offers suggestions.
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Chinese translation of Forbes article, “Taiwanese Government Sparks Hunger Strike After Rejecting Signatures For Pro-Nuclear Referendum”
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California and Germany could have mostly or completely decarbonized their electricity sectors had their investments in renewables been diverted entirely to new nuclear instead, a new Environmental Progress analysis finds.
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Friends!
I’m very happy to invite you to attend a historic, pro-nuclear power demonstration in Munich, Germany, on Sunday, October 21, from 10 am to 4 pm!
The official name of the event is the “Nuclear Pride Fest,” and its founding purpose is to save and expand nuclear energy in Europe. The Fest will be held in Marienplatz, Munich’s central plaza.
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Vipin Narang of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology describes why nations pursue nuclear power as a weapons option, how North Korea provides a “blueprint” for building a weapon, and why the use of a nuclear weapon is unlikely to escalate into a full-scale war.
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Germany is, for the first time since 1949, without nuclear protection provided by the United States, and thus defenseless in an extreme crisis. As such, Germany has no alternative but to rely on itself. A nuclear-armed Germany would be for deterrence only.
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The Finnish Green Party adopted a new program on June 19, 2018 under the leadership of MP Olli-Poika Parviainen.
With regard to nuclear energy, and for the first time in Europe, this green party is now "open to all research and development on low-carbon technologies that respect the environment. The most recent nuclear projects in Finland have been slow and problematic. We do not want it to start over again. "
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What I think about a lot.
I have, for a long time, been thinking about three important interlinked crises. I put them in these general categories: 1) energy and climate, 2) human development and well-being, and 3) ecosystems and biodiversity.
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New Jersey’s passage today of legislation to prevent the premature closure of the state’s nuclear plants is another crucial victory to save America’s largest source of clean energy.
Climate and environmental scientists organized by Environmental Progress urged New Jersey’s Governor Philip Murphy to pass the legislation, and I testified in support of the legislation last December.
But the legislation’s passage came at a hefty price: 18 to 28 times more in subsidies for solar energy than will be received by nuclear plants.
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