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The Greens: illogical and treacherous : Comments
By Peter Ridd, published 12/5/2008The Greens are less of an environmental movement and more of a left wing conglomeration devoted primarily to social justice issues.
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What is not commonly known is that the Greens nearly abandoned any population policy by simply not putting a new one up for consideration at the last policy review and it was only last-minute action by the SA branch that led to them still having one. (The policy was seen as too contentious by the people drafting the revised policies.) However, there has recently been as lot of talk among the Greens in SA about population (the water crisis makes the problems of population increase all the more obvious) and it is becoming much more easy to talk about it here. (When I first started addressing this issue I was publicly called an "eco-fascist" by another Green.)
I don't agree with the idea that nuclear energy can really help us. I hold a licence to work with radioactive substances so I am not knee-jerk against nuclear energy per se. However, when you see how they handled the Maralinga cleanup (eventually burying the waste under a few metres of earth) then you just know that, if we had a nuclear industry here, then pressure to reduce the enormous financial costs would lead to shortcuts in waste-handling being taken. When you are talking about storage for hundreds of thousands of years then that is just not good enough. The UK is currently finding that the costs of cleaning up its old reactors is now increasing far, far beyond all previous estimates. The only way to see a nuclear energy industry as viable is to ignore the responsibility for waste-handling and to push this onto future generations - that may literally not have the energy to cope! That is a risk we cannot take.