{"id":7941,"date":"2020-11-27T19:32:40","date_gmt":"2020-11-27T23:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=7941"},"modified":"2020-11-27T21:31:48","modified_gmt":"2020-11-28T01:31:48","slug":"france-champion-of-the-paris-accord-derives-75-of-its-electricity-from-its-nuclear-energy-why-are-our-most-radical-environmentalists-opposed-to-nuclear-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2020\/11\/27\/france-champion-of-the-paris-accord-derives-75-of-its-electricity-from-its-nuclear-energy-why-are-our-most-radical-environmentalists-opposed-to-nuclear-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"France, champion of the Paris Accord, derives 75% of its electricity from its nuclear energy. Why are our most radical environmentalists opposed to nuclear energy?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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First, as you can see, France derives about 75% of its\nelectricity from its nuclear energy:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.world-nuclear.org\/information-library\/country-profiles\/countries-a-f\/france.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Second, NB Media Coop<\/em> keeps publishing articles\nabout\u201d  \u201cthe hypocrisy of the Liberal\nnuclear policy<\/em>\u201d,  how we should \u201ccease\nfunding and support of the Small Modular Nuclear Reactors program<\/em>\u201d, and about\nthe bad choices of \u201cNB and the federal government<\/em>\u201d in \u201cfunding\nprototype nuclear reactors<\/em>\u201d?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/nbmediacoop.org\/2020\/11\/26\/the-hypocrisy-of-the-liberals-nuclear-policy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/nbmediacoop.org\/2020\/11\/18\/throne-speech-promise-of-nuclear-reactor-revenue-does-not-add-up\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/nbmediacoop.org\/2020\/11\/11\/why-are-the-federal-and-new-brunswick-governments-funding-prototype-nuclear-reactors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/nbmediacoop.org\/2020\/10\/20\/new-brunswick-and-national-groups-call-new-nuclear-reactors-a-dirty-dangerous-distraction-from-real-climate-action\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/nbmediacoop.org\/2020\/11\/11\/are-new-brunswicks-prototype-nuclear-reactors-part-of-a-climate-action-plan\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bambi is far from being an expert of nuclear energy.\nYet she has enough lucidity to distinguish between the potentially good and evil\nuse of this energy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Examples of good use are electricity production, medical use, water desalination, agriculture purposes, and perhaps even space scientific explorations, etc. Of course, an evil use would be nuclear weapons\/wars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

None of the articles published in NB Media Coop<\/em>\nexplains to us why such energy would be bad for Canada, for our province, or at\nleast present a list of the pros and cons. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What about job creation that would benefit all communities,\nincluding Indigenous ones? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What about possibly lower costs of energy? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What about self-reliance on a more efficient energy sector?\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, we need to have the most optimal conditions\nto ensure public health safety. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bambi knows what she is talking about when it comes to safety. She was a teenager when the Ukraine\u2019s Chernobyl\u2019s tragic accident happened (she recalls the \u201ccloud\u201d that reached the part of the world where she grew up). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She also recalls barrels of nuclear waste that arrived to Beirut, from Italy through the port of Beirut in the middle of a destructive civil war (1975-1990), five of which were located or stored not far from where she used to live. Perhaps someone received money or weapons in exchange of such dangerous materials ((https:\/\/www.wrmea.org\/1995-june\/waste-dumping-during-civil-war-ignites-debate-in-lebanon.html<\/a>)? Perhaps those, and\/or other, unethical persons told themselves that tiny Lebanon was already burning anyways? How can we minimize awful gesture with such money-oriented logic (assuming they had any consciousness)? What about the population\u2019s heath? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who knows? Perhaps related to the latter saga or not, Bambi\nhappens to have a personal interest in one\u2019s protection from extra radioactivity.\nThose who know her closely know why she is saying so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet, despite all this, she is pro-nuclear Canadian energy.\nHow could she not be so when she is pro-economic development and scientific\nadvancement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She just wishes our anti-nuclear activists can explain\nto her the whys of their position, not just repeating clich\u00e9s. Perhaps they can\nhelp her see their perspective(s) in a clearer way? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sadly, without clarity, she is left to wonder whether\nthey may be anti-economic progress (and anti-civilizational growth?), instead\nof being true environmentalists. Could it be?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First, as you can see, France derives about 75% of its electricity from its nuclear energy: https:\/\/www.world-nuclear.org\/information-library\/country-profiles\/countries-a-f\/france.aspx Second, NB Media Coop keeps publishing articles about\u201d  \u201cthe hypocrisy of the Liberal nuclear policy\u201d,  how we should […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7941"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7941"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7947,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7941\/revisions\/7947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}