British scientist James Lovelock, famous for his Gaia theory of the earth as a self-regulating organism, was in Adelaide on July 7-8, speaking at the Festival of Ideas. He has researched across a range of disciplines and has much of interest to say. But on the topic of nuclear power, Lovelock is inaccurate and irresponsible.
Jim Green
The good news is that we don't know for sure that exported Australian uranium has been used in nuclear weapons programs since the late 1940s. The bad news is that we don't know it hasn't. The regime designed to attempt to prevent
For the past three years, corporate polluters have been working to undermine the United Nations World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD), at which delegations from 174 countries will gather in Johannesburg, South Africa, from August 26 to September 4.
Green parties around the world have differing opinions on planned US-led military strikes on Afghanistan in response to the September 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Most have expressed concern about military attacks, but without opposing them outright.
Criticising the German Greens is like shooting fish in a barrel, but why bother? The answer is simple: the party has successfully spread confusion amongst environmentalists and anti-nuclear campaigners.
Depleted uranium (DU) is a by-product of uranium enrichment. Enriched uranium contains a greater percentage of the uranium-235 isotope than natural uranium, whereas the DU by-product contains less uranium-235 (and more uranium-238).
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