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To: stletters@telegraph.co.uk |
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Dear
Sir/Madam,
In response to Sunday's email debate between Zac Goldsmith and James Lovelock (Should Britain go nuclear?). What I find totally incomprehensible about James Lovelock's case for nuclear energy is that his forecast of an imminent "heat age", if it really happens, will inevitably result in a partial, if not complete break down of civilisation and with it of mankind's ability to cope with the legacy of nuclear energy. The very last thing that our surviving descendents will want is yet more nuclear sites and waste to contend with . . . ! Dr Lovelock's manifest irrationality in respect to nuclear energy gives me hope that he is also wrong about it being too late to avoid a "heat age". However, if we do not come out of collective denial and wake up very soon to our perilous situation, along with its causes and the radical changes necessary to remedy it (not just to our economy and way of life, but also to many of the values, attitudes and aspirations that underlie them), we really will be doomed. |
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