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Article: Why greens must learn to love nuclear power
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- New Statesman
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- September 22, 2008
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Global warming and finite resources mean our way of life is more threatened than ever, and it's time for the environmental movement to face up to some hard truths. By Mark Lynas
"If nuclear power is the answer, it must have been a pretty stupid question," went an oft-cited slogan of the 1970s environmental movement. But the question was not stupid, and it is even less so today when the challenge is even blunter: how are we going to provide for our energy needs in a way that does not destroy, via global warming, the capacity of our planet to support life? The hard truth is that if nuclear power is not at least part of the answer, then answering that challenge is going to be very difficult ...