Do you have any idea that you just posted an article by Michael
Shellenberger on a Marxism list? Shellenberger is not a proponent of
ecosocialism but an up-front capitalist Green, who believes that nuclear
power can solve the climate change crisis. In 2016, he signed an
Ecomodernist Manifesto alongside the wretched Stephen Pinker. This is a
useful critique of his bullshit:
COUNTERPUNCH, MAY 9, 2016
Lost in Bonkers: the Latest Episode in Pro-Nuclear Quackery
<https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/05/09/lost-in-bonkers-the-latest-episode-in-pro-nuclear-quackery/>
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In the old country, where I come from, you call a rubbish article
likethis one
<http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2016/05/how-the-greens-are-killing-green-energy.php>by
Professor Steven Hayward, “bollocks.” And if it’s bollocks, then it
needs a bollocking. Contrary to popular belief, we Brits are not very
polite. So sorry about that, and here goes.
Firstly, the article is barely by Hayward at all. Twelve of its 18
paragraphs were actually written by — and are attributed to —Hayward’s
undeclared
<http://thebreakthrough.org/people/profile/steven-hayward>Breakthrough
Institute crony; Twelve of its 18 paragraphs were actually written by —
and are attributed to — Hayward’s undeclared
<http://thebreakthrough.org/people/profile/steven-hayward> Breakthrough
Institute crony;**its recently departed president, Michael Shellenberger
(who–beware–now runs some outfit called Environmental Progress).
The Breakthrough Institute should probably be classified as a hate
group, given the ever-thickening vitriol they pour these days on the
environmental movement in general and the anti-nuclear movement in
particular.
Shellenberger majors in Trump-style bombast, his acolytes repeating
every phrase he utters no matter its veracity. In the Trump culture,
“nothing-could-be-further-from-the-truth” and “the actual truth” have
become synonymous.
Thus Hayward can quote this from Shellenberger: “/anti-nuclear
environmentalists from Germany to Illinois to California bless the
burning of fossil fuels if it means they can force the closure of a
nuclear power plant.”/
https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/05/09/lost-in-bonkers-the-latest-episode-in-pro-nuclear-quackery/
On 12/23/20 8:59 AM, [email protected] wrote:
We have to disabuse ourselves of Cold-War-era fears of nuclear energy.
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