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They seem to delight in terrorising humanity. They strut in front of advancing people, only to fly away at the last possible second, screeching in glee at their own brilliance. Great swarms of them group on buildings, heckling passers-by, glorying in their pathetic pigeon-banter, before descending like feathered Stuka ... |
But do not be fooled into thinking that these jumped-up, anti-social sky-louts are a harmless nuisance. Because, beneath the plump exteriors, pigeons are merciless killers. I can name literally two examples of slaughter inflicted by genocidal pigeons. In 2007, Craig Taylor was crushed to death by an awning which collap... |
More worrying still is the close relationship pigeons have traditionally enjoyed with the military. Who knows what nefarious experiments pigeons have undergone in top-secret army laboratories? We’ve all seen X-Men, but what about an X-Pigeon? Super strength, no fear, massive size; a creature genetically-engineered to s... |
So, remember, next time you see a pigeon, don’t sink to its level. You’re better than it. Just take the moral high ground and walk away. Unless it’s a muscle-bound super-pigeon, in which case you’d better run. Fast. |
-James McKean |
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1. alyce santoro November 18, 2013 at 10:48 am | |
In response to the author’s point that “nuclear is safe” I would like to point to an excellent list of resources compiled by eco-artist/anti-nuclear activist Eve Andree Laramee that counter this argument, and focus especially on “disposable laborers and migrant workers of the Nuclear Military/Industrial Nexus”: htt... |
While I wholeheartedly agree that “Socialists should oppose waste and inefficiency” and that “We should be for conservation and efficiency as a function of any rational society based on human needs and not profit” I wonder why “appropriate technologies” are not commonly discussed in greater depth, not only for use ... |
It would be hard to disagree with a statement like “Such a world of abundance will require more, not less energy.” It will also require more creativity and ingenuity to develop technologies that will not do more harm than good. Large-scale solar and wind may not be a catch-all answer…but by maximizing efficiency an... |
I would also like to offer a clarification to the author’s point that “…there is a belief, especially in the advanced Western countries of Europe and North America among socialists and activists for social change, that humans “use too much.” We need to be careful about lumping all humans in together – since it is n... |
2. David Walters November 18, 2013 at 10:06 am | |
@Roger…I’m against all industry plans to bury Spent Nuclear Fuel (SNF) or what you call waste. It’s anything but. It contains lots of valuable isotopes and can be reprocessed. Despite what anti-reprocessing people say, the slight increase in volume lowers the radiotoxicity of the now complete waste harmless after a... |
The nuclear ‘industry’ such as it never, ever comments on this except to ‘support’ whatever gov’t comes up with. They have no financial incentive to support reprocessing because it’s more expensive that mining, milling and enriching (the capitalist market at work). So they never fought the anti-reprocessing plans o... |
1. PhilW January 1, 2014 at 6:03 am | |
If reprocessing is more expensive than the other nuclear fuel processes you mention, is that not in part because it is very energy-intensive? Has anyone done an energy audit on reprocessing? Do we need ALL the isotopes that could come from, say, 10000 1GW reactors? |
3. Craig Johnson November 17, 2013 at 7:25 pm | |
Thanks David, this has been an interesting, thought-provoking and downright unsettling article. You make excellent points, and it’s been particularly important to me, as I’m a photovoltaic research scientist by trade and largely got into this line of work because of my politics. |
I feel, though, you’re quite dismissive of people’s concerns about the deployment of nuclear power within the confines of a system that has proven itself both capable and supportive of parallel development of nuclear weapons arsenals. The rejection of nuclear power has been a mass movement in the wake of the imperi... |
I appreciate that technological advances have allowed safe nuclear power to be a reality, and certainly support the notion that the debate over nuclear power on the left should veer toward the technical/strategic and away from ‘anti-nuclearism’ as a hardline point of principle. However, in that vein, should our cal... |
Anything less will find no traction with people who lived through the terror of the Cold War. |
Any comments in return would be appreciated! |
Best regards, |
Craig Johnson, PhD |
University of New South Wales |
Sydney, Australia |
1. David Walters November 18, 2013 at 12:33 am | |
Hi Craig, thank you for your kind comments, it helps in having a good discussion. |
Sorry about being dismissive, or that you feel that way, about people’s concerns. I actually have a lot of respect for people’s concerns but it’s how those concerns, I suppose, are expressed that I try to respond to. Where those concerns come from, etc etc. A lot of time people who oppose, generally nuclear energ... |
… the anti-nuclear *energy* movement really didn’t get started in a mass way until the mid to late 1960s, not the 1950. And yes, it grew out of the CND and other mass movements opposed to nuclear arms. My own mother was active in the nuclear test ban movement in the early 60s, banging her high heels against the P... |
My own view is that yes, we should be campaigning for more nuclear “now” if it’s acceptable to have banners for solar and wind as the Green movement generally and some left groups do specifically. Why wouldn’t we? Ironically the same groups that build solar and most notably wind, are the same companies building n... |
On the Military side of this. It is actually, already ‘decoupled’. Generally assumed but entirely false is that spent nuclear fuel, for example, is used to create atom and thermonuclear bombs. But it’s not. Never has been, not really anywhere. The connection was really never around weapons, but around propulsion.... |
So let me throw something back at ya’….for you opinion…and since you raised it. The only single program I ever supported coming out the Clinton White house in the 1990s was the “Megatons to Megawatts” program that took the nuclear swords of Russia’s atom bomb program and turned it all into the energy plowshares t... |
My question is do you oppose this or do you think perhaps this is a good program? I’m for extending this to all global nuclear WMD and turn ALL atom bombs into megawatts. I say this because we need to make the US the main supplier of the U235 and Pu239 for nuke plants because it is our nukes here in the U.S. that... |
David Walters |
2. David Walters November 18, 2013 at 10:02 am | |
Craig, I realized I did not answer one of your questions: yes, I think the anti-nuclear movement, applying old and new tactics of mass action, effectively ended nuclear energy *expansion* in most countries save for France and Japan in the 1970s and 1980s. They were able to capitalize on TMI and Chernobyl and crea... |
In the U.S. for the last 30 years it is totally the result of anti-nuclear “NGO” type organizations (as opposed to mass movement ones) that have effectively done what I describe above. I was part of the anti-nuclear movement in Pa. after TMI (where we pushed coal as the solution for nuclear back then). I believe,... |
Additionally, anti-nuclear activists don’t like to be shown how their movement dovetailed and in some cases were financed by fossil fuel interests. This was shown in the film “Pandora’s Promise”. I wish that movement, instead of being anti-nuclear, were anti-fossil fuel instead, it would of made for a different w... |
1. Craig Johnson November 18, 2013 at 8:50 pm | |
Thank you for replying so thoughtfully, David. |
I appreciate your point about the ‘Megatons to Megawatts’ program, but I’m afraid all it does is answer the question “What should be done with nuclear weapons?” I suppose it’s too easy to read the program as an eager attempt to disarm one’s enemy while getting energy on the cheap. I don’t exactly see the US jum... |
Speaking of which, I believe you’ve falsely linked the opposition to nuclear power and the advocacy of renewables to a reactionary anti-development agenda, thus insisting on a divorce between Marxism and anti-nuclearism. While there may be those on the left or in the Green movement that would argue for a radica... |
In fact I think you’re making the same mistake as your opponents in reverse: you’re confusing the shortcomings of the system with the shortcomings of a particular technology. It’s agreed that wind and solar have relatively low capacity factors. But opposing nuclear as the alternative despite its high CF—given i... |
You can claim that this would require huge investment, etc, but these are existent commercial technologies, unlike LTFRs. And when have socialists backed off of advocating large-scale investment due to ‘economic feasibility’? The whole notion of building a socialist society relies on large wealth transfers and ... |
This is not to say that every anti-nuke strategy has been correct: case in point the German experience. But I wonder, David, if you think the anti-nuke movement made no positive strides. Speaking strictly of energy, not weapons, did the activism have no positive impact on the industry with regard to safety? Nuc... |
@alyce santoro: |
It would be interesting to see a full life cycle assessment of nuclear versus PV, etc., as the Sydney University study you attach shows that nuclear outperforms PV by several times on the CO2-per-unit-power measure. |
Best regards, |
Craig Johnson |
4. Roger Annis November 17, 2013 at 4:03 pm | |
On nuclear waste, an article by Amanda Mascarelli in New Scientist (Nov 2, 2013) sums up where matters stand today with the vexing and unresolved issue of nuclear waste. She writes, |
“Globally, there is roughly 350,000 tonnes of nuclear waste (see diagram) and stocks of the most dangerous – “high-level” – material are increasing by about 12,000 tonnes annually…” |
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