Using nuclear power still doesn’t make sense
It was this hopelessly inadequate articulation of future energy policy that persuaded me to revisit the case for nuclear power, to see if it makes any more sense now than it did back in March 2012. It doesn’t.
Indeed, many of the inherent problems about nuclear power (getting more and more expensive every year, ever greater construction delays, still no answers on nuclear waste, security problems, both physical and cyber, proliferation risks and so on) are more pronounced now than they’ve ever been.
This pro-nuclear bias is not just an historical aberration; it is arguably the principal reason why we haven’t a hope in hell of achieving the government’s new target of a 78 per cent reduction in emissions of greenhouse gases by 2035. The opportunity costs of keeping these nuclear dreams alive intensify every year, distracting us so damagingly from what we know we have to do: double down on renewables, bring energy efficiency rig
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Now is the time for action
The bankruptcy of economics and the negligence and malfeasance of the economics profession is now evident, as I have charged since the 1960s and in my “Economists versus Ecologists”,
New York Times, October 24, 1971. The generational task of metaphysical reconstruction is almost complete, as we see all the policy and market failures around us: from climate change and pandemics to crises in our global food systems and the proliferation of space junk on our planet’s low Earth orbits, of which I also warned over 30 years ago. As Greta Thunberg tells us, the time now is for action. We know what is needed and no intellectual obfuscation or cognitive biases need to stand in our way. We must call out the cognitive biases of theory-induced blindness, described by Daniel Kahneman in his
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