List of pro-nuclear environmentalists
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Stewart Brand at a 2010 debate, "Does the world need nuclear energy?"[1]
While nuclear power has historically been opposed by notable environmentalists, a minority have come to support it. An urgent necessity to mitigate the serious problem of anthropogenic global warming arising from the ubiquitous combustion of fossil fuels is generally cited, often coupled with confidence that the widespread fear of nuclear technology, especially modern designs, is disproportionately greater than its actual risks. Such individuals (aka "Nuclear Greens"[2]) include:
Non-scientists
- Ansel Adams[3] (photographer, former Sierra Club director; died 1984)
- Stewart Brand[4][5] (writer, founder of the Whole Earth Catalog)
- Carol Browner[6][7] (former EPA administrator and ECCP director)
- Gwyneth Cravens[8][5] (journalist, author)
- Leslie Dewan[9] (nuclear engineer)
- Chris Goodall[10] (author)
- Ben Heard[11] (environmental consultant)
- Margi Kindig[12] (former board chair, Clean Wisconsin)
- Bjørn Lomborg[13] (researcher, author)
- Mark Lynas[14][15][5] (journalist, activist)
- George Monbiot[16] (journalist)
- Hugh Montefiore[17] (priest, former Friends of the Earth trustee; died 2005)
- Patrick Moore[18] (a co-founder of Greenpeace, and former President of Greenpeace Canada)
- Lauri Muranen[19] (Executive Director, World Energy Council Finland)
- Ted Nordhaus[20] (author, chairman of the Breakthrough Institute)
- Fred Pearce[21] (journalist, author)
- Richard Rhodes[22][5] (journalist, author)
- Jeffrey Sachs[23] (economist, director of The Earth Institute)
- Michael Shellenberger[20][5] (author, co-founder of the Breakthrough Institute)
- Robert Stone[24] (director; his film Pandora's Promise[5] features pro-nuclear environmentalists)
- Stephen Tindale[25][26] (Chief Executive of Alvin Weinberg Foundation and former executive director Greenpeace UK)
- Bryony Worthington[27] (environmental campaigner, UK House of Lords member)
Scientists
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Prof. Barry W. Brook
- James Lovelock[28]
- David J. C. MacKay[29][30] (also an author and former DECC chief scientific advisor; died 2016)
Open letter signatories
Climate and energy scientists[31][32] in 2013:[33][34] "there is no credible path to climate stabilization that does not include a substantial role for nuclear power"
Conservation biologists[35] in 2014:[36][37] "to replace the burning of fossil fuels, if we are to have any chance of mitigating severe climate change […we] need to accept a substantial role for advanced nuclear power systems with complete fuel recycling"
- Barry Brook (co-author)
- Corey J. A. Bradshaw (co-author)
- Andrew Balmford
- Daniel T. Blumstein
- Scott Carroll
- F. Stuart Chapin III
- Richard Hobbs
- Ove Hoegh-Guldberg[38]
- William F. Laurance
- Thomas Lovejoy
- Robert May (also a UK House of Lords member)
- Hugh Possingham
- Peter H. Raven
- Richard Shine
- Chris D. Thomas
See also
- Anti-nuclear movement, criticism of
The Atomic Age – Wikipedia book- Bright green environmentalism (aka Ecomodernism)
- Environmental impact of nuclear power
- Generation IV reactor (future design concepts)
- List of anti-nuclear advocates in the United States
- Nuclear engineers
- Nuclear organizations (Wikipedia category)
- Nuclear power debate
- Nuclear power in Australia#Advocates for nuclear power
- Nuclear renaissance
References
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