[BNM] [OT] Brighton's nuclear power station?

[Dave Phelan]

On 5/24/07, Tom Coady <tom.coady at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/24/07, paul perrin <paul at idltd.com> wrote:
> >
> > As the (supposed) greens voted in favour of school catchment areas that
> > would reduce the possibilities for children to walk to school (and so have
> > to be driven)
>
> But what's that to do with nukes?

Well, clearly the greens are anti-nuclear, and pro-car.
So the evident tension in these two positions (lets call it
doublethink) is a worthwhile consideration.

I think it will be interesting to see how the ongoing green
groundswell deals with the fractured nature of the green vote.

To vastly oversimplify, there's the bright greens (technology must be
used to save us and the planet), the hairshirt greens (think local,
act local, back to human-scale technology), the gaian green (humanity
is a problem, earth will fight back), the new lovelockian greens (the
only solution to climate change in this urgent timescale is nuclear),
the blue-greens (climate change and the environment is a great
business opportunity), and the ethical greens (live simply so others
may simply live).

Can the green vote hold, or will it schism?

Dave Ph
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