Yay or Nay: Bob Geldof's green, nuclear vision
Bob Geldof has never been one to shy away from courting controversy, and here he is, at it again in a blog launched by Lexus that is intended to debate the pros and cons of hybrid cars.
Sir Bob was brought in as a celebrity blogger by the car firm to kick off discussion on the more eco-friendly direction that Lexus wants to take. But so far he's chosen to use the platform most notably for putting forward his own pro-nuclear opinions, which he's given a green slant. On meeting C02 reduction targets he brands renewable energy initiatives such as wind farms "Mickey Mouse" and insists that "to really help the planet, we have to go nuclear, fast".
And on hybrid card, the very subject he was drafted in to discuss: "The reason I drive a hybrid car is simple: to avoid London's congestion charge. I simply couldn't stand paying the f**king thing."
So what do you think: is Geldof bravely putting across a realistic solution to a doomed planet, or completely out of order?
Neither we nor the planet would be doomed
even if a wicked fairy made fission
impossible later this afternoon,
but Geldof is right:
with fission, it's a lot easier.
With fission plants we don't take
the chance of another Chernobyl, and
we don't commit ourselves to
being caretakers of dangerous wastes
for longer than democracies have existed.
Posted by: G.R.L. Cowan, hydrogen-to-boron convert | December 13, 2007 9:14 PM