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Greenpeace founder actually gets it?

Someone check the forecast of Hell, pronto!  Patrick Moore, the founder of the treehugging moonbat organization Greenpeace, actually sees the benefit of nuclear power (though not in nuclear weapons, which is fair enough).  From Newsweek:

ZAKARIA: At Greenpeace, you fought against nuclear energy. What changed?
MOORE: My belief, in retrospect, is that because we were so focused on the destructive aspect of nuclear technology and nuclear war, we made the mistake of lumping nuclear energy in with nuclear weapons, as if all things nuclear were evil. And indeed today, Greenpeace still uses the word “evil” to describe nuclear energy. I think that’s as big a mistake as if you lumped nuclear medicine in with nuclear weapons. Nuclear medicine uses radioactive isotopes to successfully treat millions of people every year, and those isotopes are all produced in nuclear reactors. That’s why I left Greenpeace: I could see that my fellow directors, none of whom had any science education, were starting to deal with issues around chemicals and biology and genetics, which they had no formal training in, and they were taking the organization into what I call “pop environmentalism,” which uses sensationalism, misinformation, fear tactics, etc., to deal with people on an emotional level rather than an intellectual level.

Moore goes on to mention the impending “nuclear renassiance”, where about a dozen nuke plants will apply for licenses this year after four last year.  Nuke plants would likely eventually replace coal-powered plants to generate power in this country…which would be tons cleaner to the environment (which I used to think environuts cared about).  You’d think that the treehuggers would be fond of that idea, but as Moore points out, they’re too busy “feeling” and not busy enough “thinking”!

An environmentalist who actually wants to look at science instead of choosing to live off of emotionally reflexive irrationality…there’s hope for environmentalists yet.

April 14, 2008 - Posted by crushliberalism | environuts