Nuclear Roulette: new book puts a nail in coffin of nukesEven for the experienced anti-nuclear campaigner, there is bound to be new material in this valuable book. It isn't surprising, for the authors are veterans for the peace and environmental movements. Knowing them, I can vouch for their work and long term commitment: Gar Smith was the long time editor of the Earth Island Journal, and worked with the founder of Friends of the Earth, David Brower.
Tightly but passionately written,
Nuclear Roulette was published in June, 2011, begun well before Fukushima blew. Three long-time writer/activists working under the umbrella of the San Francisco, California-based International Forum on Globalization got together to demolish the nuclear power scam. Lead author Gar Smith teamed up with Ernest Callenbach, Aileen Mioko-Smith and Jerry Mander to write and edit a definitive, up to date book on the nuclear threat. The problems of nuclear technology, the lies of the nuclear energy/weapons establishment, and the impossibility of endless industrial growth are well addressed, and a wide-ranging approach to alternative economic/energy technology is presented.
As for solutions, less energy and non-fossil/nuclear energy options are discussed. But for the "Zero CO2 Economy" to come about, can The System reform itself? Collapse of the growth economy, fossil-fuel driven climate distortion, and a catastrophic petroleum-famine are the main drivers of fundamental change -- not policies or so-called decision makers. However, examining collapse is indirectly possible through
Nuclear Roulette: Bay Localize's Community Resilience Handbook is offered as an explicit resource for post-oil living and organizing in the present. An appendix in the Handbook is "Our Post-Peak Oil Future" (co-authored by yours truly) which discusses sudden collapse via oil industry failure versus a more optimistic, slow collapse of civilization.
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