Nuclear energy

Gen4: Safe. Clean. Green. Power.

Michael Shellenberger

"Why I changed my mind about nuclear power."

"Why renewables can't save the planet."

"How Fear of Nuclear Ends."

"This Environmentalist Says Only Nuclear Power Can Save Us Now."

"How fear of nuclear power is hurting the environment."

"A Manifesto for a New Environmentalism" (2007)

Apocalyse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All (2020)

"Why Biden’s Climate Agenda Is Falling Apart — The reasons have more to do with physics than politics"

Solar requires 300 - 400 times more land than nuclear, demands 18 times more steel, and produces 300 times more hazardous waste.

"Why Drug Abuse, Not Climate Change, Is America’s Biggest Problem."

"Drugs killed 3,000 times more people than the climate in 2020."

"Why Everything They Said About Solar Was Wrong: Solar Panels Will Create 50 Times More Waste & Cost 4 Times More Than Predicted, New Harvard Business Review Study Finds."

Sunniva Rose at TEDxOslo 2013

"How bad is it really? Nuclear technology -- facts and feelings."

Links

• The Breakthrough Institute
• Environmental Progress

Environmental Progress (EP) was founded to achieve two goals: lift all humans out of poverty, and save the natural environment. These goals can be achieved by mid-century — but only if we remove the obstacles to cheap, reliable and clean energy.

"The Complete Case for Nuclear"

• Bjorn Lomborg, How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet
• "U.S. DOE Advanced Nuclear Reactor Concepts"
• Alex Epstein, "Steps toward decriminalizing nuclear"

Not nuclear, but another contrarian view of the environment:

• Alex Epstein, The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels.