[ RadSafe ] Nukes are Green

[Jerry Cohen]

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From: Susan Gawarecki <loc at icx.net>
To: RADSAFE <radsafe at radlab.nl>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2005 2:00 PM
Subject: [ RadSafe ] Nukes Are Green


Maybe I am off base here, but I am bothered by the 
ethics of fighting against one phony issue 
( nuclear energy dangers.) by invoking another 
phony issue such as global warming. 
Any comments???

Jerry Cohen


> April 9, 2005
> OP-ED COLUMNIST
> Nukes Are Green
> By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
> Article at http://snipurl.com/dy94
> 
> f there was one thing that used to be crystal clear to any 
> environmentalist, it was that nuclear energy was the deadliest threat 
> this planet faced. That's why Dick Gregory pledged at a huge anti-nuke 
> demonstration in 1979 that he would eat no solid food until all nuclear 
> plants in the U.S. were shut down.
> 
> Mr. Gregory may be getting hungry.
> 
> But it's time for the rest of us to drop that hostility to nuclear 
> power. It's increasingly clear that the biggest environmental threat we 
> face is actually global warming, and that leads to a corollary: nuclear 
> energy is green.
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