I recently blogged about my perceived solution to climate change and my criticism of nuclear and coal solutions. Some people replied aggressively saying that Nuclear is 'safe and cheap' and calling me shortsighted.
I would like to share a couple of articles about nuclear energy that I read recently.
Amid the recent comments by French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner that the world should prepare for war with Iran if they produce nuclear weapons pervades an uneasy and growing tension between Islamic and non-Islamic governments. Not before the current US occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan have ceased, now France has begun demonizing Iran and drawing sides in preparation for a war with the nuclear ambitious Islamic state. How can the Western world set about a peaceful, diplomatic engagement with Iran if they constantly pigeon-hole them as the ultimate enemy set on an unalterable course to nuclear war? The answer is they can’t. The second that our rhetoric posits Iran as the newest nuclear enemy bent on their own path to war, any attempt at diplomacy is severely weakened leaving the West with few options short of war.
Then I heard a voice. It wasn’t Eminem this time and it damn sure wasn’t my internal monologue. It was the unmistakable voice of one Weird Al Yankovic. Here’s what he said:
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