{"id":2304,"date":"2011-04-06T09:30:09","date_gmt":"2011-04-06T07:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nuclearpoweryesplease.org\/blog\/?p=2304"},"modified":"2013-03-01T00:44:02","modified_gmt":"2013-02-28T22:44:02","slug":"george-monbiot-the-anti-nuclear-lobby-has-misled-us-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuclearpoweryesplease.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/06\/george-monbiot-the-anti-nuclear-lobby-has-misled-us-all\/","title":{"rendered":"George Monbiot: &#8220;&#8230;the anti-nuclear lobby has misled us all&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>George Monbiot, environmentalist and journalist&#8230; and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/environment\/2000\/mar\/30\/energy.nuclearindustry\">once a strong opponent to nuclear power<\/a> has faced an &#8220;unpalatable truth&#8221;: the anti-nuclear lobby lied to us.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2011\/apr\/05\/anti-nuclear-lobby-misled-world\">http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2011\/apr\/05\/anti-nuclear-lobby-misled-world<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The article is only about 30 years overdue&#8230; but I cannot stop smiling when I read this.\u00a0Monbiot did what everyone should do: check the facts, think for yourself, dare to think you may have been either right or wrong.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The unpalatable truth is that the anti-nuclear lobby has misled us all<\/h2>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">I&#8217;ve discovered that when the facts don&#8217;t suit them, the movement resorts to the follies of cover-up they usually denounce<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/profile\/georgemonbiot\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Contributor picture\" src=\"http:\/\/static.guim.co.uk\/sys-images\/Guardian\/Pix\/pictures\/2010\/11\/2\/1288723986430\/George-Monbiot.jpg\" alt=\"George Monbiot\" width=\"60\" height=\"60\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/profile\/georgemonbiot\"> George Monbiot <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/theguardian\">The Guardian<\/a>, Tuesday 5 April 2011<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Over the last fortnight I&#8217;ve made a deeply troubling discovery. The anti-nuclear movement to which I once belonged has misled the world about the impacts of radiation on human health. The claims we have made are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/science\/blog\/2011\/apr\/04\/fear-nuclear-power-fukushima-risks\">ungrounded in science<\/a>, unsupportable when challenged, and wildly wrong. We have done other people, and ourselves, a terrible disservice.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Thank yo so much for this George. Along with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/environment\/article4836556.ece\">Mark Lynas<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/news\/opinion\/greenpeace-is-wrong--we-must-consider-nuclear-power\/2007\/12\/09\/1197135284092.html\">Patrick Moore<\/a>, you have shown that &#8220;green&#8221; does not have to mean &#8220;unscientific zeal&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Monbiot, environmentalist and journalist&#8230; and once a strong opponent to nuclear power has faced an &#8220;unpalatable truth&#8221;: the anti-nuclear lobby lied to us. http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2011\/apr\/05\/anti-nuclear-lobby-misled-world&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nuclearpoweryesplease.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/06\/george-monbiot-the-anti-nuclear-lobby-has-misled-us-all\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">George Monbiot: &#8220;&#8230;the anti-nuclear lobby has misled us all&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,57,254],"tags":[86,125,87,484,462,496,4,233,463],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuclearpoweryesplease.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2304"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuclearpoweryesplease.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuclearpoweryesplease.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuclearpoweryesplease.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuclearpoweryesplease.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2304"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nuclearpoweryesplease.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7199,"href":"https:\/\/nuclearpoweryesplease.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2304\/revisions\/7199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuclearpoweryesplease.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuclearpoweryesplease.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuclearpoweryesplease.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}