An Inconvenient Truth

[Occhidiangela]

You're going to teach your kids about propaganda by showing them how to approach things with pre-existing conclusions, and not listen to anything that doesn't support them?

I agree with you that nuclear power is a necessary precondition to an environmentally sustainable civilization. But I don't think it's fair to say that anyone saying otherwise shouldn't be listened to. It is, after all, a far from ideal solution.

-Jester

We agree that no solution is ideal, all solutions have risks that must be soberly accounted for and mitigated.

Jester, my advocacy for nuclear power as an energy source is 30 years old. It hasn't changed, even though the risk mitigation of nuclear power is no trivial matter, is a real cost, and must be aplied to the total system cost. The energy crunch of 1973 and its aftershocks were rendered as background noise in all the idiotic hysteria over Three Mile Island and CHernobyl, as though these two data points were proof to not use nukes, rather than to use nukes more intelligently and safely. Enter Al Gore and his Green Machine attitude, which is very old news.

Gore plays Ostrich and CHicken LIttle with nukes.

In the time period of my awareness of nuclear electrical power as a viable option (what is it, 70% of the French electrical load is provided by reactors?), Mr Gore and his crowd have been the sound and fury signifying nothing in UNREASONED, HANDS IN THE EARS, opposition to nukes.

Pardon me for knowing the kind of propagandist I am dealing with. :P

I don't doubt for a minute his sincerity in wanting to make America greener, and cleaner: he's been reasonably consistant in that stance for some years, and in principle I agree with him. But I don't forget the line of crap he's been selling for the same time period.

I hope to be pleasantly surprised by the film.

If a better answer for low emissions energy sources are presented, I'm all over it like a big dog, based on practical application. Until then, smart consuming of energy, rather than wasteful consumption, is one of my few paths to making such difference as I can.

PS to Concillian: We should all also floss everyday, but do people do that? Good post in any case.

Occhi