Clouds gathering in the green movement?
at 10:31am on Friday, 8th April 2005
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.
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.
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