Letter | Climate aware, Big Oil both hate nuclear energy - Santa Cruz Sentinel

Letter | Climate aware, Big Oil both hate nuclear energy - Santa Cruz Sentinel

We know oil companies justify denying climate change by studiously ignoring relevant facts. These include facts Exxon’s own scientists revealed 40 years ago.

Many, who consider themselves liberal/progressive and climate aware, actually agree with Big Oil. They hate nuclear energy. Surprise! Big Oil, recognizing a serious competitor, hates nuclear, too. Enough that, when a Green.org says they won’t support nuclear, Big Oil may give them large, regular donations.

How sad that well-recognized groups with otherwise excellent credentials are as easily swayed from their mission by the smell of money as congresspeople (or right-leaning Supreme Court justices).

Hate nuclear reactors? You should still support building new ones. Safety valve: If they’re completed and their rationale, over the years, has evaporated (progress does occur, after all), we just don’t fuel them. Other side: the day you, too, become convinced that nuclear is the best way to save our biosphere, we’ll already be critical years ahead.

— Edgar Ross, Scotts Valley

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