Correction, Please!
Climate-obsessed Greenies Fear Emissions, but Reject Carbon-free Nuclear Power
Item: Time, dated September 23, 2019, filled a double-sized magazine of 112 pages (in the print version) with a “Special Climate Issue.” The issue leads with a piece with this premise: It is the year 2050 and this is “How We Survived Climate Change,” written by environmental activist Bill McKibben. In this imaginary future, “the climate fight remains the consuming battle of our age, but its most intense phase may be in our rearview mirror.”
In the entire issue there is but one small section (two paragraphs in the digital version) devoted to it. There, contributor Andrew Blum does acknowledge (on page 107): “Nuclear reactors have been providing zero-carbon power since the 1950s, and today supply 20% of the U.S.’s electricity and 11% of the globe’s. But safety and environmental concerns have increased the cost and complexity of nuclear power plants, and their construction has all but stopped in the U.S.”
Item: Greenpeace is an environmental organization; it declares on its website: “Nuclear energy has no place in a safe, clean, sustainable future. Nuclear energy is both expensive and dangerous, and just because nuclear pollution is invisible doesn’t mean it’s clean. Renewable energy is better for the environment, the economy, and doesn’t come with the risk of a nuclear meltdown.” Greenpeace’s message also asserts: “High profile disasters in Chernobyl, Ukraine in 1986 and Fukushima, Japan in 2011 have raised public awareness of the dangers of nuclear power.”
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