John H. Richardson opines at the outset by asking the question .... How frustrated would you be if you had a practical solution for a climate crisis that threatens to ravage the planet and unleash social conflict that will make World War II look like nothing close, but nobody would listen?
Meet the lonely advocates for nuclear power. Here at the Paris climate summit, where the 50,000 attendees, split roughly into half official representatives and half activists (aka adversaries to nuclear power, mining, and dams), the politics have split pretty much down the middle, too. You have the government folks who are dragging their heels, and you have the climate activists who are focused on using the crisis, Shock Doctrine style, to make the world a better place. The holy word of the activists has become renewables ... never mind that renewables are still only 2% of the international energy needs and can not possibly scale up fast enough to solve the problem....or which would offer reasonable costs of electricity.
The idea of saving the world so it can go on being just as deranged and irrational, as humans, as before is at the bottom of every list. Except for the 12 people gathered around a dinner table at a lovely French bistro near the Bastille. They are coming from a few press conferences and heading to a screening soon, but none of them have eaten all day and most of them have not slept in days.
Robert Stone is fuming about Bill McKibben, founder of the world largest climate change activist group, 350.org. Stone is Oscar-nominated director of a pro-nuke documentary called Pandora Promise. The movie tracks people who were passionate anti-nuke environmentalists until they realized that climate change was a bigger problem and the only practical solution might be the very thing they had dedicated their lives to stopping.
This includes pro-nuke Stewart Brand (creator of Whole Earth Catalog) and climate scientist James Hansen who now see the merits of Nuclear Power.
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