Reaction Time: Climate Change and the Nuclear Option; Quarterly Essay 27 - Couverture souple

Lowe, Ian

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1863954120 ISBN 13 : 9781863954129

Editeur : Quarterly Essay, 2007

Synopsis

In Reaction Time, Ian Lowe examines the science and the politics of nuclear power, as well as the feasible alternatives in an era of global warming.

Australia is at a crossroads: if we are to halt global warming, do we need to stride resolutely into a nuclear future?

In this engrossing and persuasive essay, Ian Lowe discusses his one-time belief in the benefits of nuclear power and explains why that belief has faltered. He engages with the leading environmentalists, like James Lovelock, who advocate going nuclear, as well as with the less savoury aspects of the Australian politicking. He discusses whether other countries might need to use nuclear power, even if Australia doesn't, and offers an authoritative survey of Australia's energy alternatives - from solar and wind power to clean coal. Above all, he explains why taking up the nuclear option would be a decisive step in the wrong direction - economically, environmentally, politically and socially.

"Promoting nuclear power as the solution to climate change is like advocating smoking as a cure for obesity. That is, taking up the nuclear option will make it much more difficult to move to the sort of sustainable, ecologically healthy future that should be our goal." IAN LOWE, REACTION TIME

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Quarterly Essay
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1863954120
• ISBN 13: 9781863954129
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 128
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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