'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 -
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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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