New at Reason: Ron Bailey on the Green Debate Over Nuke Power

November 10, 2009

The role that nuclear power might play in addressing the problem of man-made global warming is being fiercely disputed among environmentalists. Two new books by big names in the movement stake out the boundaries of that debate. On the pro-nuclear side stands Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto by Stewart Brand. And parked in the (more or less) anti-nuclear corner is Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis by Al Gore. Reason Science Correspondent Ronald Bailey notes that both are energy socialists, but declares Brand the winner.

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