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Friday, June 14, 2013

Pandora's Promise Commentary

'Pandora's Promise' promotes nuclear power as a solution to fossil fuel crisis

Chicago Sun-Times - 
Impact Partners presents a documentary written and directed by Robert Stone. Running time: 87 minutes. Opening Friday at Landmark Century. Nuclear power is the best energy fix on Earth, claims the documentary “Pandora's Promise.” Evidence persuaded ...

'Pandora's Promise': No nukes — or know nukes?

Boston Globe - 
Much of the population of the Third World aspires to that standard of living, and many have begun to attain it. Why should Nigerians and Indonesians be denied what Americans take as a kind of birthright? All right then, but the primary means of generating ...

'Pandora's Promise': Opening up pro-nuclear dialogue

The Seattle Times -
A movie review of “Pandora's Promise,” a documentary that methodically makes the case for nuclear power using environmentalists as the main talking heads. By Mick LaSalle. San Francisco Chronicle. PREV of NEXT. Michael Shellenberger, an outspoken ...

A one-sided campaign for nuclear energy

Philly.com - 
Director Robert Stone (left) and British climate change expert Mark Lynas in the documentary "Pandora's Promise." About the movie. Pandora's Promise. Genre: Documentary. MPAA rating: Unrated. Running time: 01:26. Release date: 2013. Rating: Cast:.

Review: 'Pandora's Promise' devotes too much energy to its own dogma

Los Angeles Times - 
It's one thing to hear a legislator or industrialist extol "clean nuclear energy"; it's something else when the person singing those praises is an environmentalist. In "Pandora's Promise," Robert Stone has gathered the testimony of five people whose change of ...

'Pandora's Promise' movie review

Washington Post -
It has got to be a weird experience, for both environmentalists and supporters of nuclear power alike, to watch “Pandora's Promise.” Although the documentary ultimately argues in favor of nuclear power, an energy source that's anathema to many tree huggers ...

Time to Go Nuclear

New Yorker (blog) -
I am not sure I gave much thought to nuclear power before 1979, when the accident at Three Mile Island made environmental apathy impossible—or, at least, detestable. But there are few more obvious signs that the world is moving in the wrong direction than ...

Seeking Constructive Debate on Nuclear Energy

New York Times (blog) -
Behind the histrionics and talking points framing the decades-long battle over the place of nuclear power in America's (and the world's) energy menu, there have long been hints of a path forward, both for dealing with existing, aging reactors and considering a ...

A Film Presses the Climate, Health and Security Case for Nuclear Energy

New York Times (blog) - ‎‎
After a vigorous debate following a June 10 screening of Courtesy of the Jacob Burns FIlm Center After a vigorous debate following a June 10 screening of “Pandora's Promise,” a documentary defending nuclear energy, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and Robert ...

Former opponent takes another look at nukes in 'Pandora's Promise' 1/2

Chicago Tribune (blog) -
Not quite an H-bomb dropped on the environmentalist zeitgeist, "Pandora's Promise" does provoke those who have long opposed nuclear power to at least reconsider it, presenting its arguments in a green light and asking the question: Can one be committed ...

"Pandora's Promise" asks us to rethink nuclear energy

CBS News -
"The nuclear industry is death," a protester at demonstration says in the opening of the documentary feature "Pandora's Promise." But filmmaker Robert Stone, with the backing of Impact Partners and CNN Films, is hoping to turn that idea on its head. Opening ...

Michaud: A persuasive case to rethink nuclear power

Newsday - 
Director Robert Stone made his reputation with documentaries such as "Radio Bikini," which in 1988 exposed the hazards of nuclear testing, and "Earth Days" in 2009, which celebrated the rise of environmentalism. So it's startling to witness the pro-nuclear ...

'Pandora's Promise' Advocates Nuclear Energy

New York Times (blog) -
Early in “Pandora's Promise,” Mark Lynas, a British environmental activist, walks around the ghostly environs of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan, near the second-worst nuclear disaster in history. There, amid spookily forsaken homes and ...

Will "Pandora's Promise" Start A New Environmental Movement FOR Nuclear ...

Huffington Post - 
The last line in Pandora's Promise, Robert Stone's new documentary about the environmental advantages of nuclear power, comes from Michael Shellenberger, co-head of the Breakthrough Institute. "I have a sense that this is a beautiful thing..." "...the ...

Pandora's Promise

West End Word - 
Opening at an anti-nuclear power rally, protesters with bullhorns inform listeners of the dangers of nuclear power: cancer dangers, weaponization and the myriad of deaths that have occurred from nuclear accidents. They tout the need to convert to solar and ...

Pandora's Promise (CNN Films, NR)

Play by Play 
pandoraspromise 75 Unfortunately, too many people confuse convincingly expressed belief with actual evidence about the true state of the world, and that's what documentarian Robert Stone is banking on. pandoraspromise 500. Pandora's Promise is a ...

'Pandora's Promise' is a contrarian documentary on nuclear power

STLtoday.com - 
In a perfect world, our information would be reliably sourced. The documentary “Pandora's Promise” tells us that this world would be closer to perfect if it had more nuclear power plants. This is a polished production that will convince some people to question ...

Nuclear Exchange

Outside Magazine - 
Pandora's Promise, a new film by Robert Stone, argues that our only chance of escaping climate-change doom is a global shift to atomic energy. David Biello has a few hard questions, including: What will we do with all that waste? By: David Biello.

'Pandora's Promise': A love letter to atomic energy

Berkeleyside -
It takes balls to make a pro-nuclear power film two years after the Fukushima Daiichi, but that's what Robert Stone has done with Pandora's Promise. Over the years I've reviewed more than my fair share of 'right-on' left-wing documentaries, so it's only fair that ...

'Pandora's Promise' review: Pro nuclear power docu sure to cause, well, a ...

Pioneer Press -
After Chernobyl, Fukushima and Three Mile Island, there's one thing we can all agree on: Nuclear power is a disaster, right? Not so fast. The documentary "Pandora's Promise" convincingly argues that we should take second, third and fourth looks at the ...

Movie review: 'Pandora's Promise'

vita.mn - 
It's rare when a longtime proponent of a cause reconsiders the facts and performs a public about-face. That's exactly what makes the pro-nuclear power documentary “Pandora's Promise” so refreshing. The film presents a gallery of scholars, experts and ...

The Nuclear Option: Is Atomic Energy the Key to Ending Climate Change?

TakePart -
Willy Blackmore is TakePart's Food editor. He has written for The Awl, LA Weekly, and elsewhere. Full Bio. Follow Me. Twitter · Google +. nuclear energy climate change. A single cube of uranium could provide power for your entire life—but at what cost?

Pandora's Promise: A Documentary That May Change Your Opinion of Nuclear ...

TheStranger.com -
While people are quick to dismiss nuclear energy as bad, Pandora's Promise shows how some leading environmentalists have converted to support its use. Many activists have become disillusioned with the traditional environmental approaches to climate ...

Pandora's Promise: When Greens Embrace Nuclear

Popular Mechanics -
Robert Stone's new documentary, out today in New York and this weekend around the country, follows environmentalists who have reached the same difficult conclusion he has: When it comes to generating electricity, nuclear power is only practical way to ...

Film Review: Pandora's Promise

Film Journal -
The nuclear-energy and defense industries will be rubbing their hands over this shameless recantation of anti-nuke opinion, led by director Robert Stone, who brought the issue to Sundance back in 1987 with his Academy-Award nominated Radio Bikini.

'Pandora's Promise' review: Surprising new perspective on nuclear power

Examiner.com -
Director Robert Stone is by all accounts a passionate environmentalist, having made the anti-nuclear weapons documentary, “Radio Bikini” (nominated for an Oscar), and “Earth Days,” which was the closing night film at Sundance Film Festival in 2009.

Movie Review: Put “Pandora's Promise” Back in the Box

All Things Nuclear -
There's nothing I enjoy more than a good documentary: one that makes its case in a compelling way without resorting to crude propaganda techniques or insulting the intelligence of its audience. A good documentary treats opposing views with respect but ...

Pandora's Promise: Would You Buy a Nuclear Reactor From Paul Allen?

Seattle Weekly -
My ears prick up whenever I hear how Bill Gates and Paul Allen are spending their money. Putatively a documentary about the resurgence of nuclear power, Pandora's Promise is actually an infomercial for a business still stigmatized by Three Mile Island, ...

Change of heart: Environmentalists revisit nuclear in a new film

Medill Reports: Chicago -
How radioactive is your town? To dispel preconceptions, filmmakers measured radiation across major cities and nuclear disaster sites worldwide using a Geiger counter, shown here in Chernobyl, Ukraine. Guarapari, Brazil clocked in with a normal ...

Pandora's false promise.

Environmental Health News (blog) -
Pandora's Promise, a documentary film by director Robert Stone that opens in U.S. cities on June 12th, unabashedly promotes nuclear power as the only energy source that can both meet worldwide demand and help reduce carbon emissions quickly enough ...


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