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Climate change answer is sustainability, not nuclear

Nuclear power as the solution to our carbon emissions problem? Biocitizen By Kurt Heidinger on Nov 24, 2009 Today we learn, courtesy of the Washington Post, that “nuclear power is the “new” solution to humanity’s carbon emissions problem”.

I post this as a reminder that technocrats always claim technology will save the world from the excesses of…um, well…technology.

That, after over 40 years of experimenting in broad daylight, no technocrat has devised a safe way to dispose of radioactive waste never clouds the horizon of these cheerful boosters. And the costs? Nuclear power is cost-competitive (as long as you don’t figure in 20,000 years of waste management).

Perhaps our carbon emissions problem is not a problem of technology; perhaps our carbon emissions problem is caused by our stubborn investment in an unsustainable kind of human inhabitation?

(What was it that Darwin said about critters that don’t adapt to the conditions of their environment?)

What if, instead of committing ourselves to funding a new generation of nuclear power plants, we committed ourselves to living sustainably?………………….Today we know we cannot escape ecology—but you’d never know it by reading today’s WaPo article.

Nuclear power as the solution to our carbon emissions problem?

November 25, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, spinbuster, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear wastes, nuclear weapons, radiation, radioactive, renewables