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| Subject: The Tragedy of Germany’s Energy Experiment Thu Jan 09, 2020 2:28 am | |
| The country is moving beyond nuclear power. But at what cost?
HAMBURG, Germany — Are the Germans irrational? Steven Pinker seems to think so. Professor Pinker, a Harvard psychologist, told the German newsmagazine Der Spiegel recently that if mankind wanted to stop climate change without stopping economic growth too, the world needed more nuclear energy, not less. Germany’s decision to step out of nuclear, he agreed, was “paranoid.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/08/opinion/nuclear-power-germany.html |
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