Is Nuclear Energy Our Best Hope?

Even the creator of the holistic Gaia hypothesis has come around.

By Gwyneth Cravens
Apr 25, 2008 5:00 AMNov 12, 2019 5:09 AM

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Four years ago this month, James Lovelock upset a lot of his fans. Lovelock was revered in the green movement for developing the Gaia hypothesis, which links everything on earth to a dynamic, organic whole. Writing in the British newspaper The Independent, Lovelock stated in an op-ed: “We have no time to experiment with visionary energy sources; civilisation is in imminent danger and has to use nuclear—the one safe, available energy source—now or suffer the pain soon to be inflicted by our outraged planet.”

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