'Atomic Humanism' and the Eco-Modernist Campaign to Promote Nuclear Power

'Atomic Humanism' and the Eco-Modernist Campaign to Promote Nuclear Power

"Only nuclear can lift all humans out of poverty while saving the natural environment."

"Only nuclear can lift all humans out of poverty while saving the natural environment," Michael Shellenberger said in his keynote address at yesterday's annual meeting of the American Nuclear Society. "Nothing else—not coal, not solar, not geo-engineering—can do that." This, he declared, was one of the first principles of "atomic humanism."

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