Tuesday, May 13, 2008
A Greenpeace switcheroo
Could this be a case of common sense prevailing?...
At the Politico.com, Erika Lovley writes about Patrick Moore:
"When Greenpeace co-founder Patrick Moore first began second-guessing his opposition to nuclear power, he did what any good environmentalist would do: He buried it.
The activist had already helped spearhead Greenpeace’s fight against nuclear testing and had gained international recognition after being arrested for shielding a baby seal from a hunter’s club.
'I had always been afraid of nuclear waste,' he said in an interview. 'I thought if I got anywhere near it, it would kill me. But deep down, intellectually, I knew it could work.'
As global warming grew from scientific theory to public concern in the late 1980s, Moore left Greenpeace in 1986, aiming to prove to the environmental community that pro-nuclear environmentalism was not an oxymoron.
Today, he co-chairs the Nuclear Energy Institute’s Clean and Safe Energy Coalition and is a harsh critic of what he calls an 'extremist' anti-nuclear environmental movement — his former Greenpeace colleagues and others who are unwilling to consider nuclear energy as a solution to global warming."
