Finland’s Green Party endorses nuclear power
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Finland’s Green Party endorses nuclear power
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#2The Greens' idiotic anti-nuclear stance has empowered and embolden decades of coal and oil exploration and proliferation. As a Green voter I desperately hope this pattern gets adopted and replicated here in Australia the sooner the better.
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#3I have heard a lot of chatter recently about how nuclear has fallen out of favor among certain circles on the left. Can someone explain what the reasons for that are?
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#4Wait… someone in the realm of politics changed their mind in a… sane… rational direction?
I feel like I could count instances of that in my lifetime on one hand. Everywhere on the political spectrum everyone seems to have been utterly losing their minds for a long time.
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#5I have heard a lot of chatter recently about how nuclear has fallen out of favor among certain circles on the left. Can someone explain what the reasons for that are?
What do you mean? The left has been opposed to nuclear since the 60's and 70's, it's been part of pretty much every green party's platform for decades. Dropping opposition to nuclear by some parts of the left is the new phenomenon. If nuclear is falling out of favor with the left then that's simply a return to the status quo.
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#6The big problem for nuclear in Sweden at least is that no new staff has been trained for a long time. We couldn’t really run our shutdown reactors if we tried.
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#7I have heard a lot of chatter recently about how nuclear has fallen out of favor among certain circles on the left. Can someone explain what the reasons for that are?
The green party started out as an anti-nuclear party:
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#8I have heard a lot of chatter recently about how nuclear has fallen out of favor among certain circles on the left. Can someone explain what the reasons for that are?
The historical reasons for the opposition are a lot to do with opposition to nuclear weapons, and to a lesser extent environmental concerns around both waste storage/disposal and the impact of catastrophic failure events.
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#9If the Greens in England and Wales dropped their opposition to nuclear and also binned off a few of their more anti-egalitarian positions (I cannot in good faith support criminal sentencing where a man goes to jail but a woman doesn't for the same crime for example) and I'd probably vote for them at this point. They've only recently been seen as a 'serious' party with mainstream appeal but climate change doesn't really care for our political sensibilities.
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#10If Germany's Green Party takes the same line, I think it will be a huge blow to Russia.
Also, it's about time.