Maybe this is already widely understood on here, but I feel understanding how the anti-communist left was leveraged to fight nuclear energy.
As more people are reading this I wanted to share what I consider to be a superior analysis https://communistperspective.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-nuclear-debate-for-and-against.html
And to be clear, you can be pro-renewable without being anti-nuclear I am referring to many of the European Green parties that are anti-nuclear above all else. Nuclear has it’s drawbacks, but it is preferable to climate change, for now.
This is something that I’m a bit at odds with. On one hand, I kinda do support nuclear, but the org I’m a candidate for doesn’t. In their perspective, a lot of energy is wasted on capitalist production and the US military especially, the largest polluter. Under socialist organizing, the energy wasted would be distributed in a more logical and efficient manner, in their view. I haven’t finished the PSL book on Climate solutions beyond Capitalism, so I’ll reserve my full judgement for now.
A lingering concern of mine would be the storing of energy from solar and wind. I’m not sure if the needed batteries are developed enough to sustain entire cities.
Energy storage at the public utility level is essentially a solved problem, via pumped water storage.
There are so many political factors that go into different sources of energy, but so far solar, wind, and nuclear have the lowest cost per watt, and least damage to the environment. There are some concerns with the raw materials needed for solar tho that make it not necessarily better than nuclear, even tho its cost per watt has been going drastically down.
Environmental impact of making solar panels is definitely not great. Idk how it compares to what goes into a nuclear reactor other than shit ass loads of concrete and steel.
Is that the book by Tina Landis?
It is indeed
I saw her speak the other day, actually. She didn’t think nuclear was a good option. Her book is in my queue.
Did you see her at the people’s summit? It’s a very good book so far. There’s a section where they start talking about mushrooms, hehe.
She came to my local PSL on her tour.
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