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With No Solutions to Offer, Greenpeace Brings Out the Scare Tactics

The debate over nuclear energy in the U.K. reached a new low today as Greenpeace U.K. trotted out a video depicting a passenger jet crashing into a seaside nuclear power plant as a screaming family looked on.

Color U.K. resident John Connors unimpressed:
I'm no nuclear advocate, but blantantly manipulative ploys like this *really* annoy me, and deserve to backfire. Next straw man please.
And he's not the only one.

I can't say I'm terribly surprised about this
. After all, now that a growing number of environmentalists (including Greenpeace International co-founder Patrick Moore) are coming to realize how the expanded use of nuclear energy can contribute to clean air, controlling carbon emissions and enhancing energy security, groups like Greenpeace U.K. and their confederates around the world are having to turn to increasingly shrill and hysterical tactics -- and as we've seen, those tactics are starting to backfire.

If you want facts, you might want to start with this NEI backgrounder on plant security.

In the meantime, I'll be waiting for a Greenpeace video of a British family freezing in their home after Russia cuts off natural gas supplies to Western Europe. But we all know something like that would never happen, right?

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Comments

mdmhvonpa said…
"In the meantime, I'll be waiting for a Greenpeace video of a British family freezing in their home after Russia cuts off natural gas supplies to Western Europe."

Problem is that the Greens are particulary interested in the human race exiting the track ... it's just not stated as such so a few more frozen babies are just a means to their cause.
corallina said…
Let me preface by saying that Greenpeace should concentrate on more plausible rationales to convince the public to their way of thinking. That aside, Greenpeace is simply using the same propanganda the us and other shameless western govt's spew by way of excuses to restrict civil liberties and violate borders by force.
Brian Mays said…
Ivan said, "So, basically the storyline is flawed. Because the family after the crash will be able to go home unharmed, ..."

Well, perhaps not, if the family is hit by any of the wreckage of the aircraft that is ejected after striking all of that reinforced concrete.

I think the message is clear ... Ban Airplanes!

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