https://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2013/03/08/the-rise-of-the-nuclear-greens/feed/HotAir is the leading conservative blog for breaking news and commentary covering the Biden administration, politics, media, culture, and current elections.en-usTue, 09 Jun 2026 05:31:01 -0400<![CDATA[The emergence of the pronuclear Greens represents an important schism in modern environmentalism. For decades, groups like the Sierra Club and Greenpeace have pushed an antinuclear agenda and contended that the only energy path for the future is the widespread deployment of wind turbines and solar panels. But fear of carbon emissions and climate change has catalyzed a major rethinking. As Brand puts it in a new documentary, Pandora’s Promise, which explores the conversion of antinuclear activists to the pronuclear side: “The question is often asked, ‘Can you be an environmentalist and be pronuclear?’ I would turn that around and say, ‘In light of climate change, can you be an environmentalist and not be pronuclear?’ ”]]>Fri, 08 Mar 2013 22:10:08 -0500<![CDATA[Erika Johnsen]]>https://hotair.com/headlines/2013/03/08/the-rise-of-the-nuclear-greens-n100701