What George Monbiot thinks about nuclear power
Guardian columnist and environmental writer. He republishes every column at monbiot.com with its original date, which makes him one of the few public writers whose reversals can be read against the pieces they reverse.
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2 dated positions, 2006 to 2011, in their own words. Our reading of what George Monbiot has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our reading · no longer heldNuclear power is the wrong technology for cutting carbon: efficiency and renewables can do the job without it.
No longer holdsThe crisis at Fukushima has converted me to the cause of nuclear power.
SaidAtomic energy has just been subjected to one of the harshest of possible tests, and the impact on people and the planet has been small.
- 5 years earlier
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Their wordsSome of our arguments against nuclear power have collapsed, but it seems to me that the case is still robust.