Friday, 21 April 2023

“Why I changed my mind about nuclear power” | Michael Shellenberger

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Five years ago but still relevant. 
Especially about Germany, which is the most along the renewables road amongst advanced economies, but has higher electricity prices in Europe and higher Carbon Dioxide emissions. Michael Shellenberger explains why. Large part of it is that they closed all their nuclear power stations, which had been operating just fine. Today is the day the last one was closed, to “celebrations” from the Greens. Amazing. 
German nuclear lunacy.
Michael Shellenberger is an environmentalist, named Time Magazine “Hero of the Environment”, now become a major proponent for nuclear power. 
For which a couple of sides:

A thing I don’t get is how much people are anti nuclear. When you can read the real risks and the way waste is handled, and how safe it is and yet.... “It’s hard to convince someone smart. It’s impossible to convince someone stupid”. Is that it? Surely not. Just that when you’re invested in an anti-nuclear stance, changing that is as consequential as changing your mind on, say, abortion. Or guns.