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Nuclear 2.0 Mark Lynas

Nuclear 2.0 By Mark Lynas

Nuclear 2.0 by Mark Lynas


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Summary

A book that re-evaluates the role that nuclear energy has to play in a green future.

Nuclear 2.0 Summary

Nuclear 2.0: Why a Green Future Needs Nuclear Power by Mark Lynas

Everything you thought you knew about nuclear power is wrong. This is just as well, because nuclear energy is essential to avoid catastrophic global warming.

The latest energy statistics show that wind and solar power still contribute only about one per cent of global primary energy. So, while renewables will surely play an important part in our future energy strategy, expecting them to deliver all the world's power is dangerously delusional. Similarly, while energy saving has a key role to play in the developed world, there is no possibility of humanity as a whole using less energy while the developing world is extracting itself from poverty. And the fact is that the anti-nuclear movement of the 1970s and '80s has made the world more dependent on fossil fuels.

This book is a call for all those who want to see a low-carbon future to join forces and advocate a huge, Apollo-Program-scale investment in wind, solar and nuclear power.

Nuclear 2.0 Reviews

"A passionate appeal to environmentalists to embrace all the tools available that can tackle climate change. This book deserves to be read."

-- David MacKay FRS, Chief Scientific Advisor to the UK Department of Energy & Climate Change

About Mark Lynas

Mark Lynas is an environmental writer and campaigner whose previous books have drawn attention to the perils of global warming. He is Vice-Chair of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Emerging Technologies, a Visiting Research Associate at Oxford University's School of Geography and the Environment, and was Climate Advisor to the President of the Maldives from 2009 to 2011. He recently featured in the movie documentary Pandora's Promise, which inspired the writing of this book.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1. How we got to where we are 2. The carbon challenge 3. The N-word 4. The case against: nuclear accidents and radiation 5. Next generation: Nuclear 2.0 6. The spectre of climate change 7. All of the above Notes Index

Additional information

GOR007708778
9781906860233
1906860238
Nuclear 2.0: Why a Green Future Needs Nuclear Power by Mark Lynas
Used - Very Good
Paperback
UIT Cambridge LTD
2014-01-30
112
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