No more nukes

Our Man must admit, he’s been sitting on the fence about the whole nuclear power thing. On the one hand: global warming fossil fuels and imminent destruction of our planet. On the other, TEPCO. And as distasteful as TEPCO is, and the horrors of Fukushima not withstanding, Our Man was able to be vaguely pro-nuclear power but anti-TEPCO. At least he was convincing himself.

Our Man’s position was not really very tenable. You’re either for nuclear power as the only workable, if occasionally apocalyptic non-carbon power source, or you’re with the woolly-minded, right-on folk who think all you have to do is throw money at the science and we’ll be able to create energy, perhaps from all their hot air, to power our iPhones and cappucino makers with no consequences for eternity.

Well, Our Man doesn’t like those choices.

Renewable energy doesn’t add up. Yet. But nukes are not the way forward. I’m not sure what is. It may well be a hotch-potch of half-ass renewable efforts and a great deal of sacrifice to get us off our addiction to fossil fuels.

And while former PM Koizumi has no doubt sniffed the electoral air, as they say,
Nukes will not save us, leadership will. 

And I agree. No more nukes.