Earth Institute: “Japan should use nuclear power”
Posted: April 12, 2015 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a comment
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Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Jeffrey Sachs, director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University, has stated in an interview with Ryuichi Otsuka, a news researcher for the prominent Japanese news provider Yomiuri Shimbun, that Nuclear Power is an essential part of the solution to climate change.
According to Sachs;
Q: Nuclear power has various risks, but threats of climate change are much more serious?
A: That is exactly right. Climate change’s danger is great. What scientists tell us is that by the end of this century, if we don’t take strong measures, the Earth’s climate will change to be in a condition unlike anything that humanity has ever experienced — with many more extreme events, with much hotter temperatures, with much more frequency of typhoons, droughts, floods and with the risks of very significant rise of sea levels — which…
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