Welcome to Everything is Light, a newsletter where I offer pro-human, pro-progress commentary on science and the environment that you won’t find in the mainstream media.
In fact when it comes to topics like nuclear energy and AI, you’ll be hard pressed to find clear breakdowns elsewhere to help you make sense of those topics.
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Why read this?
A little about me. In 2015 I was dubbed “Britain’s greenest mother” by The Daily Telegraph and “an eco-pragmatist, happily heavy on science” by The Guardian. I wrote the evidence-based book The Ultimate Guide to Green Parenting when I realised that ‘environmental’ parenting books heavily promoted pseudoscience (and were largely anti-vaccination).
Over time, things changed.
I realised I had fallen for degrowth narrative, which doesn’t actually help people or the environment. In 2018, as a spokesperson for Extinction Rebellion (XR), I refused to defend false claims made by the group live on The Andrew Neil Show, and decided to quit the group and go public about my support for nuclear energy instead. I wrote two op eds that were published in British newspapers in the same week, which were the first pro-nuclear articles in those papers. They started a preference cascade of support for nuclear and a debate that spread as far as Australia.
I founded the first-ever pro-nuclear environmental group in the UK, Emergency Reactor, to create a space for environmentalists who support nuclear energy and human progress. Together we helped to challenge and change the global narrative around clean energy.
Why was I anti nuclear in the first place? Many of us have been influenced by lies told by environmental organisations and unfair reporting of clean energy in the press. I started this Substack to try to provide a different perspective. If you enjoy learning news things, asking questions, and thinking outside the box, this newsletter is for you. Let’s create a high-energy, low-carbon future together.
