Summary
What a pity that Professor James Lovelock, so well-known and influential as a scientist, should be making such misjudgments on the juxtaposed subjects of wind farms and nuclear power. His NIMBY attitude to the former (WMN, April 3) is understandable insofar as he lives in Cornwall and his pristine landscaped surroundings are liable to be "contaminated" by these pollution-free sources of electricity. He should realise, however, that all over the world wind farms are going up at a rapid pace in the attempt to make a quick start to challenging the problems of supplying energy without the pollution endemic in fossil fuel power and the danger endemic in nuclear power, so they are evidently not as useless as he and other Nimbys in our area of the country pretend. (We look forward to the wave power and tidal power sources now being developed, but not so far advanced as wind turbines, to take much of the strain in the search for renewable energy in the near future).
Fossil fuels are adding to the CO2 problem and are worrying in their effects on climate change. But nuclear power, which Prof Lovelock defends so strongly in his books, is worse because of the drastic health effects our reckless release of man-made radio- activity has sprung on the world in the past half-century of its existence. The cause and effect connection between these is something to which we are only just waking up as the toll of cancer on the human race increases year on year. Or in Prof Lovelock's case, it seems, not yet waking up, despite the massive evidence available from many sources of its invidious effects on human tissue, especially when imbibed or inhaled and lodged inside the body rather than just impinging temporarily on its outer surfaces.See the full content of this document
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