Greens ‘aid destruction of planet’
A leading scientist has warned that opposition to nuclear power by environmental campaigners is irrational as well as dangerously misguided
ENVIRONMENTAL groups are setting back the fight against global warming with misguided and irrational objections to nuclear power, according to Britain’s leading thinker about the future.
The “fourth-generation” nuclear plants that could be built now are profoundly different from older designs, with safety features that make meltdown impossible, low waste output, and fuel that is not suitable for bombs, Dr Martin said.
He is keen on the pebble bed reactor, an experimental South African and Chinese design, in which the fuel is incapable of melting. A prototype has been built in Beijing. “With the pebble bed reactor, the fuel is easily disposed of, and it can be divorced absolutely from the bomb industry,” he said.
The environmentalists are just the latest in the Luddite movement. They want to deny all of the great things that progress has done for us.
Over the weekend I was camping out. No lights, no running water, no hot showers. That’s the lifestyle they want to impose on most of the world. However they seem to have a loophole for their own luxuries.
Imagine the world if we had 6 Billion people and no technology. The forests would be gone, the rivers would be choked with sewage. There would be no wildlife.
I don’t believe the claims of the global warming crowd. However atomic power is the cheapest way to generate electricity. If the environmentalists were the least bit rational they’d be behind this safe clean technology.
But they hate and fear progress, which is what sets them squarely as the latest members of the Luddite clan.
