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Challenging Climate
Asking tough questions about the science, technology, and politics of climate change, two climate researchers challenge leading experts on one of the defining issues of our age. Every two weeks, they explore how we can fight global warming by cutting greenhouse gas emissions, carbon removal, adaptation and solar geoengineering. Dr. Jesse Reynolds and Dr. Pete Irvine consider the roles of computer models and persuasive narratives, economics and public policy, and renewable energy and national security in the climate debate, and look beyond to issues such as biotechnology and international development.
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music by Peter Danilchuk @clambgramb (IG/Twitter).
Challenging Climate
4. Zion Lights on nuclear energy, technology, and climate change
Zion Lights is an environmental activist and author. She founded Emergency Reactor, which calls for greater use of nuclear power, alongside renewables, in order to help eliminate greenhouse gas emissions. Her books include "The Ultimate Guide to Green Parenting" and "Only a Moment." She was previously spokesperson for Extinction Rebellion. We discuss her transition from Extinction Rebellion to nuclear advocate, nuclear energy's roles in reducing emissions, its challenges to expansion, the politics of nuclear energy, ecomodernism, and the dark side of environmentalism.
Links:
- Personal website: https://www.zionlights.co.uk/
- Emergency Reactor: https://www.emergencyreactor.org/
- electricityMap: https://electricitymap.org/
- Our World in Data on nuclear energy and its emissions and safety: https://ourworldindata.org/nuclear-energy#modern-renewables-and-nuclear-energy-are-not-only-safer-but-also-cleaner-than-fossil-fuels
- Hans Rosling on development: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbkSRLYSojo
- Lights's appearance with Andrew Neil: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3kJwQBZOkM
- Extinction Rebellion statement on Lights: https://extinctionrebellion.uk/2020/09/16/statement-on-zion-lights-michael-shellenberger-and-the-breakthrough-institute/
