[ RadSafe ] ARE ANTI-NUCLEAR ACTIVISTS WORKING FOR MAN OR FOR NATURE?

[Susan Gawarecki]

Interesting--and well written--column by Robert Gelfand at 
http://www.american-reporter.com/2,878/3.html.

Here's a teaser: 

LOS ANGELES, April 17, 2006 -- An OpEd in the /Washington Post/ this 
week argued that the use of nuclear power is the truest 
pro-environmental response to global warming. Among a few rational 
responses, there was also the predictable flurry of /ad hominem/ attacks 
on the messenger, rather than a careful evaluation of the message. Why 
this should be so is is all but lost on reporters.

What was missing is an understanding of the fundamental dichotomy in 
environmentalist thought; for editorial writers, this point is crucial 
to understanding how pseudo-environmentalism is so often elevated over 
the more fundamental kind. Environmentalism in the modern day has to be 
understood as two fundamentally different, often competing impulses.

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--Susan Gawarecki