[Marxism] "Power to Save the World: The Truth About Nuclear Energy"

[Bill Quimby]

David, I find your defense (now and in the past) of technocratic ideology
disheartening. This ideology proclaims that no matter what has gone wrong
in the past we can, through the *better* use of technology and technological
methods, make it better. So we have Three-Mile Island. No problem - we'll
just do it better next time. We have Chernobyl. No problem -
we'll just do it better next time. Power plants in Ohio with huge cracks in
the reactor dome. No problem - we'll just do it better next time. Japanese
plants built on fault lines. No problem - we'll just do it better next time.
So you and those who think like you prey on the gullible and susceptible
who hope (perhaps even pray) that the technologists will save us. The not-
quite-as-gullible and the not-quite-as-susceptible just frankly don't believe.
And it may even be that it isn't the science that we don't believe - it's the
fallibility of the humans behind it.

- Bill

David Walters wrote:
> Actually I believe there are a few others including those that wrote me 
> off list but for obvious reasons don't want to express it on the list.
> 
> I think everything under capitalism needs to be discussed. Capitalism is 
> "doing things" in the environment and we have to take a position on it. 
> It is even a point of organizing, as your mention of the Clamshell 
> Alliance points out (even if they were wrong). This list, also, is not a 
> reflection of what's out there, only a small intellectual sliver of it. 
> This is a positive thing, not a bad thing, but the left, in developing 
> countries especially,  has positions I believe closer to mine the 
> general anti-nuclear milieu on Western environmentalism that is 
> reflected in an almost absolute majority here on Marxmail.
> 
> Louis, I debate with ANYONE. This issue is too important. I set up on 
> dairy on the dialykos because it elicited so many responses in the first 
> HOUR of posting. I will also agree with anyone if we are on the same 
> side of a particular issue. I don't get liberal guilt because my view is 
> accepted by more people on the right of the political spectrum  than the 
> left. Just don't give a shit. The issue is the issue...and, IMO, you are 
> totally copping out not want to discuss "energy issues under 
> capitalism". Maybe we should wait until  the Revolution to discuss 
> racism then.
> 
> David
> 
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