[O]ver the past thirty years since the fearmongering of Greenpeace and their Luddite pals effectively ended the construction of nuclear power plants in America, we've continued to be dependent upon importing fossil fuels from people who want to kill us, and the world has at the very least wastefully postponed the rise of a cheap energy source that potentially could have helped untold millions of people in poorer nations.Read the whole thing here.
So to paraphrase Ray Donovan, where do we go to get our thirty years back?
Because most importantly, if we'd had thirty years of clean nuclear energy replacing dirty coal and oil-based energy, we might only know Laurie David as Larry David's kind-of-obnoxious wife.
To clarify: the title is excerpted from Act 1 of Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost. The full quote goes: "Light, seeking light, doth light of light beguile; So ere you find where light in darkness lies, Your light grows dark by losing of your eyes." It's a warning against spending too much of your life in scholarly pursuits.
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Wednesday, April 04, 2007
Levy On the Luddites
Andrew Levy has a nice piece over at the Daily Gut on the incredible duplicity of environmental and anti-nuclear activists, especially Greenpeace. A sample:
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