BRENT: Kirsty Gogan says the sooner environmentalists view nuclear as a low carbon solution the better for tackling climate change risk sensitive and nuclear energy risk sceptical? Congratulations. You’re a reflective cultural nonconformist. Yesterday my friend told me that I am cough “unusual” for holding the views I do about nuclear energy and climate change. As a climate worrier environmentalist herself, she sees me as one of her ‘kind’ and yet struggles to reconcile this with my pro-nuclear tendencies.
Yeah, I’ve changed my mind about nuclear in light of climate change. But why is this so isolating, I wonder? So I was fascinated to see this blog, posted on Twitter by Suzy Waldman, that climate change risks and nuclear ones do tend to cohere, and signify membership in one or another cultural group.
This makes me, along with around three per cent of the population, Waldman reckons, a rare bird. One that my new favourite Yale Law School bloggers, @cult_cognition dubs this phenomenon “‘Ropeik’: a type who is very worried about climate change but regards the water used to cool nuclear reactor rods as a refreshing post-exercise drink.”
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