Rod Adams, of the Atomic Insights Blog, wrote us a nice letter about our piece on Dr. Patrick Moore from earlier this week. On the other hand, I am not sure that despite proclaiming himself an expert on the issue, he is fully aware of the history of Nuclear Power, and perhaps he didn't even listen to the entire interview. Here is an excerpt:
(note, these are not our words. These are those of Mr. Adams, which I repost as a courtesy for a reader who obviously took time to write in and I appreciate it. Whether or not I'm 100% in agreement? I'm not so sure. Some parts look more conspiracy theory than solid fact to me, but it's his right to say it, and I appreciate reader response at this point. If you take the time to write, Alex and I will take the time to read, and even re-post some of it. We may think some of this is...questionable, but like it or not, we'll let him have his piece. here it is.)
...As you pointed out, MySpace, Facebook and other interactive media
efforts get bombarded by mainstream media with stories about their
potentially negative impact on the young. Of course those same media
properties air programs that portray hundreds of murders and other
violent acts every week while trying to attract the same eyeballs that
are moving to more interactive, arguably more educational uses of
their time in the online world. In other words, FUD happens.
From a human security point of view, the battle against nuclear power
was probably the worst example of all. The visible Luddites in that
case hid behind the mantle of selfless Environmentalism, but the real
power probably came from the richest enterprise the world has ever
known. Though there is a lot of money in Silicon Valley, the total
revenues of all technology companies combined pale when compared to
Exxon-Mobil. Last year, that single company sold more than $340
BILLION worth of product and banked more than $40 BILLION in net
profit. That company, however famous, only has a 2-3% share of the oil
market, which itself is only about 1/3 of the total energy market.
Take a look at the people who control energy wealth in Texas, Saudi
Arabia, Russia, Dubai, Iraq, and Iran (not an exhaustive list) and
compare the way that they live with the way that most energy consumers
in the world live. They have tremendous motives for loosely organizing
to fight against the only real source of power that can help displace
our collective addiction to fossil fuel. In his talk with you, Patrick
Moore mentioned the forward looking master plan of Exxon-Mobil and
Shell International for new energy sources in the US, but please
understand that the energy business has had long term master planning
in place for many decades - there are plenty of books on the subject...
First off, I'm skeptical that Big Oil funded Greenpeace or the Environmental movement, nor did the Saudis or the OPEC countries. As Dr. Moore himself said, much of the criticism of Nuclear Power came from fear of Nuclear Weapons, and the response to Chernobyl and Three Mile Island accidents. Keep in mind these happened during massive expansions of nuclear testing, and there was an overall climate of fear of all things atomic. Sometimes things are simply what they seem. While I admire your enthusiasm, sometimes the simplest explanation is the most explainable and works best. Occam's Razor, anyone?
Also, if Russia and Iran are so anti-nuclear power, why would they want it? Cheney would have us believe that Iran wants a bomb, but in reality, more Nuclear energy in Iran means less oil burned for their power grid, which means more to sell to us. Supply and Demand, my friend.
Further, the "master plan" involves Liquid Natural Gas because it's cleaner than Coal, and there is still popular resistance to Nuclear energy. Dr. Moore wants to change the debate and make people realize that Gas is still from overseas. The same with Coal. It's domestic, but dirty. Dr. Moore is correct in his observation that properly implemented, Nuclear energy can cut our dependance on foreign fuels, cut our burning of domestic coal ("clean coal" and "capture and store" are red herrings) and provide almost unlimited power at very, very cheap rates once the initial cash investment in building the plant is done. The major expense in Nuclear is building the plant, not fuel. Fuel can be recycled until it is almost useless, you drop it into a rock for 300some years, and it's nothing more than a lump. There is no conspiracy, only logic. Occam's razor.
I am happy to print your rebuttal to the Moore piece, but keep in mind that it doesn't make you look like you have examined the entire issue. Still, I appreciate the reader feedback.
Please write in, but I'd appreciate a bit more research and less shrill propaganda before you do. Dr. Moore and I had a civil conversation. I expect the same with each one of you. If you write to me or Alex, expect your words to be fact-checked and analyzed. We believe in things, but we don't share conspiracy theories or your zeal to blame unseen "large forces" for things that are rather simple.
Thank you for your comments. Happy Easter, Go Badgers!
I think you're reading a little too much into what Rod wrote. He's not making a concrete claim that "Big Oil funded Greenpeace," but rather that there are very powerful forces out there working to perpetuate the energy status quo, and that they've used the environmentalist movement to greenwash their activities. For examples of these efforts, look into the activities of the Joyce Foundation, which distributed money to environmentalist organizations to advocate for "clean coal," or at the Rocky Mountain Institute, whose apparent iconoclasm belies their funding by status-quo energy interests. At the same time, I think that the alliance of environmentalism and the fossil-fuel industry is generally unwitting on the part of the environmentalists.
I find your characterization of Rod Addams as as a crackpot as ignorant as it is offensive. Addams is one of the more respected pro-nuclear commenters on the web and the postings in his blog have always met a higher journalistic standard than most. Apparently a trait you do not share.
To call his letter (which is printed in full on his blog) a rebuttal of Moore is a gross inaccuracy. There is absolutely nothing in that comment critical of Moore's position, in fact it begins:
I thoroughly enjoyed your interview with Dr. Moore for Capitol Valley. As you mentioned in your blog post, he is a very smart man. He is also a very perceptive man and a tremendous organizer of people and ideas. I am sure glad he is on the good side of the nuclear issue now.
To me it looks like Addams was in support of Moore and was only attempting to expand on Moore's points. Nothing here that I would typify as 'shrill propaganda'
I believe if you would read some of entries posted under the tag 'smoking gun' at Atomic Insights you will find that the financial links between some in the antinuclear movement and legacy fuels can be established with some degree of confidence. This is particularly true in Australia where the coal unions and politicians from coal mining areas have made no effort to hide their support and have stated it in the press on more than one occasion.
No one is suggesting that these are the only forces at work in the publics poor attitudes toward nuclear energy. Those of us that have spent many years in the trenches of the pronuclear side of this debate wish it were that simple. Nor is it just Three Mile Island and Chernobyl at the root of nuclear fears, although they did exacerbate them. In fact seeing this whole issue as a them vs.us fight is overly simplistic and ignores other forces that are at work in this domain.
I believe you owe Addams an immediate apology at the very least for typifying him a crackpot, and you owe it to yourself and your readers to look a bit deeper into the points he brought up in his comments.
I'd give you a score of "Lout" on this one. If you spent several days reading all Rod has posted on his web sites about nuclear energy since the late '90s you would know you've made the kind of blunder someone who types faster than the speed of thought makes.
I'm certain that as you mature, these incidents will become less frequent.
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