http://www.theworld.org/2012/05/linked-by-coal-south-carolina-seattle-china-and-greenland/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=linked-by-coal-south-carolina-seattle-china-and-greenland Global Perspectives for an American Audience Tue, 12 Feb 2013 14:49:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://www.theworld.org/2012/05/linked-by-coal-south-carolina-seattle-china-and-greenland/comment-page-1/#comment-24691 NukeCoal Sat, 02 Jun 2012 22:40:00 +0000 http://www.theworld.org/?p=122999#comment-24691 Where were you fellows in the 70's cand 80's?  Many of us felt that in resisting nuclear power the Big Four (Greenpeace, Physicians for Social Responsibility, Union of Concerned Scientist, and the Sierra Club) were forcing us into even greater reliance on coal -- and it happened.  So now those groups are again blithely supporting a fossil fuel as part of their knee-jerk resistance to nuclear power.  Yes, natural gas is better than coal vis-a-vis the effluents that are discharged into the atmosphere, but being half as bad when you could be thoroughly better is a winner?  Come on.  But that's what the Sierra Club, from which I recently resigned,  believes. Where were you fellows in the 70′s cand 80′s?  Many of us felt that in resisting nuclear power the Big Four (Greenpeace, Physicians for Social Responsibility, Union of Concerned Scientist, and the Sierra Club) were forcing us into even greater reliance on coal — and it happened.  So now those groups are again blithely supporting a fossil fuel as part of their knee-jerk resistance to nuclear power.  Yes, natural gas is better than coal vis-a-vis the effluents that are discharged into the atmosphere, but being half as bad when you could be thoroughly better is a winner?  Come on.  But that’s what the Sierra Club, from which I recently resigned,  believes.

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