Former Extinctionist Sees the Light
“I have a long history of campaigning on environmental issues, most recently as a spokesperson for Extinction Rebellion,” writes British activist Zion Lights. “Now, I have quit the organisation to take up a position as a campaigner for nuclear power.”
“I have a long history of campaigning on environmental issues, most recently as a spokesperson for Extinction Rebellion,” writes British activist Zion Lights. “Now, I have quit the organisation to take up a position as a campaigner for nuclear power.”
Her conversion followed a chat with Andrew Neil:
Ms Lights is now fully atomic:
For many years I was skeptical of nuclear power. Surrounded by anti-nuclear activists, I had allowed fear of radiation, nuclear waste and weapons of mass destruction to creep into my subconscious.
When a friend sent me a scientific paper on the actual impacts, including the (very small number of) total deaths from radiation at Chernobyl and Fukushima, I realised I had been duped into anti-science sentiment all this time.
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