Why the West should go nuclear
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Why the West should go nuclear
Our irrational fear of atomic energy is costing lives
Hi all, I’ve written an article explaining why it’s high time we overcame our irrational fear of nuclear energy — a perfectly safe, zero-emission clean energy source — and embraced its revolutionary potential to offer cheap abundant energy for decades to come. The article is filled with lots of of myth-busting trivia about this tragically misunderstood technology.
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Regarding "the blurring of nuclear power and nuclear weapons", I believe that Petra Kelly and the founders of the Green Party in Germany in the 1970s saw nuclear power rightfully or wrongly as part of the military-industrial complex and opposed it on that basis. The bizarre thing about the current moment is that the modern German Greens have thrown the baby out and kept the bathwater. They remain adamantly opposed to nuclear power, but have gone all-in on military support for Ukraine; essentially serving adjuncts for NATO militarism.
For me the German Greens symbolize the decadence of the contemporary "Left", which by abandoning their roots in working class movements driven by class analysis and historical materialism, have become seemingly untethered from the real world, pursing Utopian fantasies like Zero Emissions (in our lifetimes!?) with no real understanding the material conditions which underpin German prosperity (affordable energy supplies). Collapsing Germany's industrial economy is "painful but necessary". Creative destruction, bring it on! No worries! In his search to find replacements for Russian gas, Robert Habeck returned from Qatar empty-handed; we later learned that Qataris wanted thirty-year contracts; he rejected that, because natgas is for him just a transitional thing. The German citizenry needs to vote the Greens out of power as soon as possible before they utterly destroy that country. Maybe then Germany can once again embrace nuclear power.
Good article! But I think the link in this post is for a different unherd article?