My dad was one of them. Somewhere I have a drawing from the early 1970's (possibly from Friends of the Earth) viciously lampooning him for claiming that nuclear power would address CO2. Of course nowadays everyone is nastier and more prolific.
Let’s support young Aussie teenager, William Shackel, who has set up “Nuclear for Australia”.
A majority of Australians are now in favour of nuclear, but the ruling Labor Party still opposes. And the climate czar, Chris Bowen, is an anti-nuclear zealot.
William has a petition on his website, to change Australian law re nuclear. It’s currently *illegal* believe it or not!
I know Will, he's doing good work. I have tried to engage Chris in a debate, with no success. Some of the outright lies he tells are quite shocking. Meanwhile The Labour Party here in the UK supports nuclear.
Thanks. That reminds me that a family friend was an avid conservationist, a (very) long-time supporter of the Sierra club. He resigned from them in the early 70's because of their rabid opposition to nuclear power.
Atlantic Richfield knew exactly what it was doing when it was subsidizing antinuclear activity in 1969. Over the subsequent 50 years, bunker oil declined from a large global source of electric power generation to almost nothing. Only one oil-fired power station remains in service in Canada today. In Rumania, all of its nuclear power plants have directly displaced bunker oil imported from the Gulf States.
There are signs of hope despite the closure of useful nuclear plants like those in Germany or Japan. The Ontario government has determined that it will refurbish and renovate four of its nuclear reactors at the 50-year old Pickering Nuclear Power Station just east of Toronto. Ontario has directed its two nuclear operating companies to build seven new nuclear reactors: three at Bruce and four at Darlington. New nuclear power generation is anticipated in Alberta, Saskatchewan and New Brunswick.
It has to be nuclear power, because the inadequacy of renewable wind and solar to maintain a reliable electricity system has already been demonstrated. Based on the direct experience of Ontario, Australia, Britain there is no alternative to nuclear power. Japan now understands this and is in the process of returning to service all of its idled nuclear power plants. Even antinuclear Germany is not immune, as it is now one of the largest importers of nuclear power generation from France.
Thank you for researching and writing this article. The "One World Government, Leftists" have enormous, tax sheltered funding of $Billions. The NGO's are staffed by leadership that rotates in and out of the top tier of the government (in the U.S anyway). Example Gina McCarthy as Obama's EPA Head, then worked for NRDC Action Fund. It is worrisome for the future of the Free World, that the extremists (who are now in charge) are so strong. The Capital Research Center is one org that keeps up with the mischief and funding of these activist NGO's. Here are some links.
Worse yet, the Environmental Activist (against Fossil and Nuclear) are also aligned with the U.N. and the enormously influential organization for Influencing U.S. voters, Planned Parenthood. Here are some links that may be enlightening on these "alliances of anti-conventional energy" groups:
Thanks. I hadn't known about the funding history for Friends of the Earth and Sierra Club. I appreciate your sense that you've been fighting a thankless battle for quite a while, but keep in mind that others were fighting the same battle before you.
Zion, the viciousness with which Greenpeace has gone after its founder Patrick Moore is ample testimony to the bad behaviour of the international environmental industry. I find it bewildering how an organization can keep touting the same solutions over and over again, have them fail every single time, and then still insist on repeating it again and again. Albert Einstein had a quotation for this state of affairs, "Insanity is repeating the same experiment and expecting a different result."
To tolerate this for years as you and others such as Moore, Bjorn Lomborg, and Michael Shellenberger (and a host of others too numerous to name) have done is truly remarkable.
I have been careful not to share names, but two of the original advocates told me they have not fully recovered from the attacks they experienced when they started talking about nuclear positively. The hate campaigns pre social media involved anti-nukers camping on the doorsteps of people's family homes. Vicious indeed.
Agreed. One of the most savage forms of these attacks comes when direct action is made against the persons and families. This includes promoting their home locations in the abominable practice called "doxxing". It says a great deal about the worthlessness of their positions on anything when they have to resort to this as their only rebuttal. But that's very cold comfort indeed when subjected to such attacks.
And what is very clear is that new media allows these attacks to be aassembled sometimes very rapidly through a host of on-line applications. These things can take the form of flash-mobs. The suddenness with how they are formed makes them almost impossible to stop.
This is a very new, much more dangerous world in which we live now, making things like democracy and freedom of expression much more difficult to attain. Also note that the police are useless in these circumstances.
Richard, if you go back into the early history of various organizations like Sierra Club you find that in the late 1950s and early 1960s they were supportive of nuclear power. This was because they accepted the views of groups like the American Society of Naturalists that nuclear power was a good idea because it limited the size of human industrial footprint by eliminating things like coal mining and left more room for nature. Back in those years there was indeed some commonality between naturalists and environmentalism before the latter went corporate and became Washington's second largest lobby industry.
My dad was one of them. Somewhere I have a drawing from the early 1970's (possibly from Friends of the Earth) viciously lampooning him for claiming that nuclear power would address CO2. Of course nowadays everyone is nastier and more prolific.
Lots of good information in here that the average person normally never sees.
Let’s support young Aussie teenager, William Shackel, who has set up “Nuclear for Australia”.
A majority of Australians are now in favour of nuclear, but the ruling Labor Party still opposes. And the climate czar, Chris Bowen, is an anti-nuclear zealot.
William has a petition on his website, to change Australian law re nuclear. It’s currently *illegal* believe it or not!
I know Will, he's doing good work. I have tried to engage Chris in a debate, with no success. Some of the outright lies he tells are quite shocking. Meanwhile The Labour Party here in the UK supports nuclear.
https://zionlights.substack.com/p/australia-is-a-nuclear-nation-so
https://zionlights.substack.com/p/fact-check-clean-energy-politics-uk
Thanks. That reminds me that a family friend was an avid conservationist, a (very) long-time supporter of the Sierra club. He resigned from them in the early 70's because of their rabid opposition to nuclear power.
Atlantic Richfield knew exactly what it was doing when it was subsidizing antinuclear activity in 1969. Over the subsequent 50 years, bunker oil declined from a large global source of electric power generation to almost nothing. Only one oil-fired power station remains in service in Canada today. In Rumania, all of its nuclear power plants have directly displaced bunker oil imported from the Gulf States.
There are signs of hope despite the closure of useful nuclear plants like those in Germany or Japan. The Ontario government has determined that it will refurbish and renovate four of its nuclear reactors at the 50-year old Pickering Nuclear Power Station just east of Toronto. Ontario has directed its two nuclear operating companies to build seven new nuclear reactors: three at Bruce and four at Darlington. New nuclear power generation is anticipated in Alberta, Saskatchewan and New Brunswick.
It has to be nuclear power, because the inadequacy of renewable wind and solar to maintain a reliable electricity system has already been demonstrated. Based on the direct experience of Ontario, Australia, Britain there is no alternative to nuclear power. Japan now understands this and is in the process of returning to service all of its idled nuclear power plants. Even antinuclear Germany is not immune, as it is now one of the largest importers of nuclear power generation from France.
Thank you for researching and writing this article. The "One World Government, Leftists" have enormous, tax sheltered funding of $Billions. The NGO's are staffed by leadership that rotates in and out of the top tier of the government (in the U.S anyway). Example Gina McCarthy as Obama's EPA Head, then worked for NRDC Action Fund. It is worrisome for the future of the Free World, that the extremists (who are now in charge) are so strong. The Capital Research Center is one org that keeps up with the mischief and funding of these activist NGO's. Here are some links.
1. Sierra Club: https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/sierra-club/
2. Planned Parenthood: https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/planned-parenthood-federation-of-america/
3. Wild Earth Guardians: https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/wildearth-guardians/
4. Natural Resources Defense Council: https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/natural-resources-defense-council-nrdc/
5. Capital Research Testimony by Scott Walter May 2022: https://capitalresearch.org/app/uploads/2022-May-4-Testimony-Finance-Subcom-IRS.pdf
6. Capital Research Center, Green watch: https://capitalresearch.org/category/green-watch/
7. NRDC Activist Facts, Influence Watch: https://www.activistfacts.com/organizations/19-natural-resources-defense-council/
Worse yet, the Environmental Activist (against Fossil and Nuclear) are also aligned with the U.N. and the enormously influential organization for Influencing U.S. voters, Planned Parenthood. Here are some links that may be enlightening on these "alliances of anti-conventional energy" groups:
8. Sierra Club and Abortion Alignment, On the Issues, : https://www.ontheissues.org/Celeb/Sierra_Club_Abortion.htm
9. U.N., Planned Parenthood and Sierra Club Alignment Sept. 2015: https://unfoundation.org/media/un-foundation-planned-parenthood-federation-of-america-sierra-club-announce-winners-of-first-ever-why-we-care-youth-emerging-leaders-for-reproductive-rights-contest/
10. Sierra Club & NRDC Environmental Groups Urge Support for Affordable Care Act and Reproductive Rights, March 2017: https://content.sierraclub.org/press-releases/2017/03/environmental-groups-urge-support-affordable-care-act-and-planned-parenthood
11. Sierra Club & Planned Parenthood Join Conferences to Explain Sex and the Environment. Nov. 2007, Catholic News Agency, : https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/11091/sierra-club-joins-planned-parenthood-to-offer-conferences-on-sex-and-the-environment
Then of course, we cannot forget the do-gooder's of the World Economic Forum as well.
Your article is important. Thank you for your work!
And here is where they want all electricity to come from.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fX9aJy1YU6U
This on the finest farmland in the world capable of feeding millions.
"life-saving technologies like gene-editing" umm... which lives? which gene?
It's linked to this, which answers your question in detail > https://zionlights.substack.com/p/gene-editing-saves-lives
Thanks. I hadn't known about the funding history for Friends of the Earth and Sierra Club. I appreciate your sense that you've been fighting a thankless battle for quite a while, but keep in mind that others were fighting the same battle before you.
Yes, as I wrote, many of the early voices have scars on their backs. I have worked with several of them, so I know the stories.
Zion, the viciousness with which Greenpeace has gone after its founder Patrick Moore is ample testimony to the bad behaviour of the international environmental industry. I find it bewildering how an organization can keep touting the same solutions over and over again, have them fail every single time, and then still insist on repeating it again and again. Albert Einstein had a quotation for this state of affairs, "Insanity is repeating the same experiment and expecting a different result."
To tolerate this for years as you and others such as Moore, Bjorn Lomborg, and Michael Shellenberger (and a host of others too numerous to name) have done is truly remarkable.
I have been careful not to share names, but two of the original advocates told me they have not fully recovered from the attacks they experienced when they started talking about nuclear positively. The hate campaigns pre social media involved anti-nukers camping on the doorsteps of people's family homes. Vicious indeed.
Agreed. One of the most savage forms of these attacks comes when direct action is made against the persons and families. This includes promoting their home locations in the abominable practice called "doxxing". It says a great deal about the worthlessness of their positions on anything when they have to resort to this as their only rebuttal. But that's very cold comfort indeed when subjected to such attacks.
And what is very clear is that new media allows these attacks to be aassembled sometimes very rapidly through a host of on-line applications. These things can take the form of flash-mobs. The suddenness with how they are formed makes them almost impossible to stop.
This is a very new, much more dangerous world in which we live now, making things like democracy and freedom of expression much more difficult to attain. Also note that the police are useless in these circumstances.
Richard, if you go back into the early history of various organizations like Sierra Club you find that in the late 1950s and early 1960s they were supportive of nuclear power. This was because they accepted the views of groups like the American Society of Naturalists that nuclear power was a good idea because it limited the size of human industrial footprint by eliminating things like coal mining and left more room for nature. Back in those years there was indeed some commonality between naturalists and environmentalism before the latter went corporate and became Washington's second largest lobby industry.