George Monbiot is one of those screamingly left-wing European nuts straight out of central casting. He’s a professional protestor, offers a cash reward for the arrest and show trial of Tony Blair, attempted to personally arrest John Bolton, and seems to want all the most fascist, anti-freedom nuttery that the environmentalist movement dreams about. So, imagine my surprise at this:
Why Fukushima made me stop worrying and love nuclear power
As a result of the disaster at Fukushima, I am no longer nuclear-neutral. I now support the technology.
A crappy old plant with inadequate safety features was hit by a monster earthquake and a vast tsunami. The electricity supply failed, knocking out the cooling system. The reactors began to explode and melt down. The disaster exposed a familiar legacy of poor design and corner-cutting. Yet, as far as we know, no one has yet received a lethal dose of radiation.
I’m… shocked. Monbiot typically comes down on the moonbat side of just about every issue, but this time he has written a reasonable and logical article.
Also: recent footage showing the Fukushima facility and those working to fix it.
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2 Responses to “Even Monbiot can learn”
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It’s shocking, yes. Even the liberals (and yes, even Greenpeace) are advocating for nuclear energy. Eventually liberals will come around to the conservative point-of-view.
Today’s Liberals are Tomorrow’s Conservatives.
Given what this reports him to have written, I think I’d suspect some neurological problem rather than enlightenment:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Monbiot