Renewable plus Nuclear Conversation #ReNuLRC by Re+Nu

Thanks JPerron! How fun to be catalyzed. Quick question: "Living Room Conversations (LRC)" isn't mine. Is it OK to refer to them in the application? LRC is an independent organization that wants the world to start having more conversations. My twist is to add some language to their boilerplate "energy" conversation to make it about nuclear + renewable (their conversation at present is about denial of climate change). I will send an email to the founder of LRC to make sure they're OK with this proposal on Climate Colab, otherwise I will have to use a generic name, like "exploratory conversation" or something. But I am also trying to raise awareness for their organization because I think everyone LRC's about multiple topics should become the norm. Thanks again, now to complete the application. Best regards, Rezwan

The problem is not the case of pro-nuclear vs pro-renewable. It's the case of pro-nuclear versus doctrinaire anti-nukes. The anti-nuclear ideology has become to the modern Greens a fundamental tenet of belief and is quasi-religious. If I were to join the Catholic Church and reject the bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ, I would be excommunicated for heresy. And if I were to join the Green Party and reject their doctrinaire certainty on nuclear energy, I would equally be excommunicated for heresy. Some of these people have been anti-nuke for 40 years & given the choice of: - 1. I admit that I must be wrong because of the weight of opinions of the experts, or 2. The experts are wrong, and therefore MUST be part of a conspiracy, the human mind nearly always chooses 2 above. Helen Caldicott believes in a mass cover-up – “The World Health Organization is now part of the conspiracy and the cover-up. This is the biggest medical conspiracy & cover-up in the history of medicine." Cindy Folkers says she has “uncovered a deliberate conspiracy on the part of the government and nuclear industry to intentionally poison the public with radioactive food with the goal of making contaminated food acceptable.” Arnie Gundersen states on his website “world governments continue to cover-up the true magnitude of this disaster, and the mainstream media ignores it”. Christopher Busby claims “the Japanese government is deliberately spreading radioactive material from Fukushima all over Japan.”