"Prescription for Survival": A Debate on the Future of Nuclear Energy Between Anti-Coal Advocate Geo

[CHIMO]

"Prescription for Survival": A Debate on the Future of Nuclear Energy Between Anti-Coal Advocate George Monbiot and Anti-Nuclear Activist Dr. Helen Caldicott

The crisis in Japan has refueled the rigorous global debate about the viability of nuclear power. Japan remains in a "state of maximum alert" as the experts scramble to contain radiation that is leaking from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station. Nuclear energy remains a controversial topic in climate change discourse, as environmental activists argue how to best reduce the amount of greenhouse gases being emitted into the atmosphere—often the debate pits one non-renewable energy against another as renewable energy technology and research remains underfunded. Democracy Now! hosts a debate today about the future of nuclear energy between British journalist George Monbiot and Dr. Helen Caldicott. Monbiot has written extensively about the environmental and health dangers caused by burning coal for energy, and despite the Fukushima catastrophe, stands behind nuclear power. Caldicott is a world-renowned anti-nuclear advocate who has spent decades warning of the medical hazards posed by nuclear technologies, and while agreeing about the dangers of burning coal, insists the best option is to ban nuclear power.

http://www.democracynow.org/2011/3/30/prescription_for_survival_a_debate_on
http://play.rbn.com/?url=demnow/demnow/demand/2011/march/video/dnB20110330a.rm&proto=rtsp&start=00:10:33

[bananas]

1. Monbiot is misinformed and has really drunk the kool-aid. nt

[txlibdem]

2. Helen Caldicott: it's all an international conspiracy

The U.N. Scientific Committee on Atomic Radiation, the IAEA, the World Health Organization, are all part of a giant conspiracy with the nuclear power industry?

:tinfoilhat: :wtf: