Clouds gathering in the green movement?
by Paul Miller
Last year, prominent environmentalist and originator of the Gaia hypothesis, James Lovelock caused a storm in the green movement by suggesting that nuclear power may be a necessary technology to avert climate change.
Now Stewart Brand has written a piece called Environmental Heresies in the current Techology Review arguing, again, that it's a debate the environmental movement needs to have.
It's interesting for me because of what Brand describes as the two influences on the green movement - romanticism and science. The nuclear question isn't just about science, it's about peoples' feelings about science. That may seem terribly 'irrational' but it matters.