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kristopher

(29,798 posts)
9. Finally admitting your hidden agenda again...
Wed Feb 27, 2013, 10:27 PM
Feb 2013

Whether you want to admit it or not, nuclear power is playing a key role in preserving the existence of the fossil fuel economy. The degree of public action by you and your fellow nuclear advocates in spreading misinformation about the potential for renewables to solve the climate and energy problems dwarfs the efforts of the fossil fuel industry. Everywhere you go, in every venue where the problem is discussed you have two groups who obstruct public acceptance of the recognized solution to these problems - climate change deniers and nuclear power advocates. In spite of their campaign to greenwash nuclear power by capitalizing on its low carbon profile to align it with renewables, the fact is the economics of nuclear do no work in a system built on distributed generation and that industry knows it. Therefore it takes every possible opportunity to sabotage the transition to distributed generation - the UK is the latest case in point. The propaganda associated with the German transition is another.

Renewables are making far more rapid progress than we could have possibly hoped. We can do better, but one of the barriers we have to surmount in order to do so is the massive public social media propaganda campaign organized by the industry utilizing the members of the various "professional" nuclear industry organizations such as the American Nuclear Society.

When I first turned my attention to the renewable naysayers populating the public debate around solutions to climate change, I entered with the assumption that the villains were rooted in support for fossil fuels. I was soon to learn however, that the role played by fossil fuel interests is largely confined to the political sphere and churning out nonsense by think tanks. I was surprised to learn that far more actual damage is being done by the coordinated lies of the nuclear industry in social media.

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