Lovelock is highly critical of "cosmic-scale exaggeration" and "distortions of the truth about the health risks of nuclear energy", which he holds responsible environmental activists and a credulous media too ready to accept their bona fides. Public attitudes, Lovelock writes, were also swayed by the association of atomic energy with the destruction threatened during the Cold War by nuclear weapons, mobilized by a post-Vietnam culture of protest and fashionable anti-Americanism...
Gaia Goes Nuclear by Peter Dolan & Donal Fitzgibbon, TCS Daily, 2/20/2006
James Lovelock mentioned favorably on this blog? He's no less crazy than ever on many subjects, such as his "deep ecology" position on human beings being somehow an alien presence in nature, but Lovelock, the secular godhead of the Gaia ecology movement, has come out in favor of nuclear powerplants worldwide. Not happy to be a mascot, he's taken a few other bites out of the moral superiority stance of deep ecologists.
Lovelock is critical of environmentalism more generally, referring to it as a movement of "affluent radicals in the first world" and points out ill-conceived solutions such as the banning of the pesticide DDT, which condemned millions in poor tropical countries to fatal mosquito-borne malaria....Gaia Goes Nuclear by Peter Dolan & Donal Fitzgibbon, TCS Daily, 2/20/2006 continued
Oh-oh, this doggie has got teeth. This is the kind of recantation we've come to favor here! Maybe next he'll acknowledge the obvious, that human beings are both from nature and bear the principal responsibility for managing it.
Luther
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Aha, perhaps this is one of those "strange new respect" stories the left likes to run when a conservative recants in order to get more and better party invitations and more TV face time. Nonetheless, we'll take whatever allies we can get on this one! The extreme ecologists are yet another branch of the moonbat left that has somehow evaded media attention. These people actually would like to exterminate humans (their enlightened selves excluded, of course), since we are an alien force that is destroying nature. Hence, these so-called ecologists' lack of concern for the logging jobs they've destroyed in the Northwest, for example. Saving trees is fine, but not when you condemn thousands of logging families to destitution in the process. These extreme greenies would rather see the loggers and their families die. Absolutely bizarre, but they exist.
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