• Educate yourself on nuclear power. Learn to pronounce it (noo-clee-er, not like noo-kyoo-ler) and then learn all about it. The Nuclear Energy Institute has a great educational website filled with facts, truth, and mythbusters. Seed Magazine has a well-produced one-page cribsheet on nuclear energy. And my own website has a small Nuclear Engineering section with some good resources.
• Once educated, take action whenever you hear misinformation about nuclear energy recklessly interjected into popular debate. Dispel the myths, refute the lies, and lay a logical smackdown on the blathering freaks zombified from prolonged exposure to neo-utopian green-ness. Write your politicians about supporting nuclear energy. Write your politicians about equal environmental standards for so-called “developing” pollution mammoths (like China and India).
• Don’t believe the hype. Actively disregard anything being loudly shouted by student environmental activists. They’ll stand outside at protests screaming nonsensical eco-chants, yet they haven’t even done anything useful for the “Earth” yet to begin with… see what they’re like in 20 years trying to hold a job and raise a family. Usually these snot-nosed airbags are just echoing the sentiments of some socialist professor, and carry with it vehement disdain for the environmental policies of the United States. News flash, the US (and most western countries) are meccas of green gold – veritable bastions of crunchy tree-hugging hippies – compared to the rest of the planet. Ignoring environmentalist wackos usually can only benefit the Earth.
• Live reasonably. If you live in the West and you aren’t giving time and/or money to some worthy cause somewhere… then there’s a good chance you are selfish, and selfish people hyper-consume for their own ends. Break the habit by supporting a poor child. Consider setting aside a portion of what you’d normally spend on intra-family gifts to help out the local city mission. Contact your local church and find out if they know of anyone in need of some groceries or yard work. By spending your wealth (and if you’re in the US, you’re wealthy) partially on others, you’ll consume less and be a better steward of the environment.
• Don’t pollute. That includes YOU – fat lady driving in front of me throwing your McDonald’s bag out the car window onto the road! That also includes YOU – smoker who thinks the entire friggin’ planet is an ashtray for your cigarette butts! If I could magically cast two spells… the second one would be that every conscious act of polluting would take a week off the polluter’s life.
• Whatever Al Gore says… the opposite is probably true. Act accordingly.

Happy Earth Day!

The GreenBleach founder is Patrick Moore and his entire article is linked here.

Nuclear Engineers have known the environmental superiority of nuclear energy as a large-scale, safe and reliable source of energy for decades. Most reputable scientists and citizens with common sense have also known this for decades. So why are the greens, who are supposed to be so-called “Earth’s defenders”, the biggest opponents of nuclear energy… a curious stance which cutely and ultimately enough hurts the very dirt they worship? Simple. Personal politics.

Nuclear energy, unfortunately, is synonymous with nuclear weapons in ignorant circles (like GreenBleach)… and of course to greens nuke weapons are the phallic tools of greedy white patriarchs seeking to starve all poor children and destroy all planetary animal life. Just using the word nuclear will send many a UC Berkley graduate into an epileptic fit worthy of an Amsterdam rave. Henceforth anything sounding nuclear becomes a Republican plot to make more money, and thus… no matter how much environmental scientific evidence can overwhelmingly support it… out of political fervor most greens will oppose it. But the honest ones are starting to come around.

This phenomenon, by the way, isn’t unique to the environmental issue… you’ll see it everywhere. There are some scientists who, despite the evidence for some intelligent design in nature and the grave problems with a purely naturalistic evolution model, will oppose the idea of design simply because (and they readily admit this) they refuse to face the philosophical and moral dilemma of a designer. In the same vein many oppose intelligent design (ID) not because they believe in evolution, but because evolution fits their worldview better. If you’d prefer to do what you like without the pesky guilt trip then you embrace existentialist claptrap and fight like the devil to keep anything resembling God out of view. This includes opposing ID in schools because they want to keep “Bible-thumpers” from re-writing their school curricula (a noble fear, I must admit).

But alas, I am getting onto a topic for another time. And in reality if there were such a thing as “green conservatives” I would probably be prototypical. So, as a nuclear engineer I applaud any green who decides to put common sense, science, and… *gulp* …the environment before politics. Let us pray for his ostracized soul.