Is nuclear power the solution? Public Meeting to be addressed by Michael Meacher writer, MP and Peter Bunyard One of the founders of “The Ecologist” magazine, writer and campaigner on environmental issues. THURSDAY, MARCH 16th, at 7 pm prompt, Chaucer Lecture Theatre 1, Nottingham Trent University, Goldsmith Street.
There is now no doubt among scientists that global warming is happening, that it’s caused by human activities like burning fossil fuel and that its consequences could be catastrophic. The evidence is everywhere:
Sea levels are rising, flooding coastal areas.
Climate extremes like drought and flood are more common.
Hurricanes and severe storms are more frequent.
The ice in the Antarctic, Arctic and Greenland is disappearing.
Delicate ecological networks on which all life depends are being disrupted irreversibly.
As we struggle to slow down global warming by reducing carbon emissions, we also face an energy crisis: Using coal emits too much CO2 which causes global warming. Oil consumption increases, but new reserves are becoming difficult to find. Nearly at the end of European natural gas pipeline, UK access to dwindling natural gas supplies will become very insecure. Renewable energy is not being deployed quickly enough. Bio fuels mostly use too much energy for the energy obtained and compete with food crops for land. Many environmentalists are now reluctantly turning to nuclear power for the answer, but is it?
Will our energy future be a choice between the consequences of a nuclear reactor accident in which tens of thousands might die, or an environmental disaster in which millions might?
Sea levels are rising, flooding coastal areas.
Climate extremes like drought and flood are more common.
Hurricanes and severe storms are more frequent.
The ice in the Antarctic, Arctic and Greenland is disappearing.
Delicate ecological networks on which all life depends are being disrupted irreversibly.
As we struggle to slow down global warming by reducing carbon emissions, we also face an energy crisis: Using coal emits too much CO2 which causes global warming. Oil consumption increases, but new reserves are becoming difficult to find. Nearly at the end of European natural gas pipeline, UK access to dwindling natural gas supplies will become very insecure. Renewable energy is not being deployed quickly enough. Bio fuels mostly use too much energy for the energy obtained and compete with food crops for land. Many environmentalists are now reluctantly turning to nuclear power for the answer, but is it?
Will our energy future be a choice between the consequences of a nuclear reactor accident in which tens of thousands might die, or an environmental disaster in which millions might?
so come to the Camp for Climate Action
14.03.2006 20:28
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