Social and Environmental Justice in Climate Solutions - Not Nuclear
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2 December 2005
"Social and Environmental Justice in Climate Solutions - Not Nuclear"
The Queensland Nuclear Free Alliance support the International Day of Action on Climate Change on December 3rd.
We are calling for the Australian government to recognise it's social responsibility to Australians and the rest of the world by taking strong action to mitigate greenhouse including signing the Kyoto protocol.
Climate change is imposing unfair costs on the two-thirds world and Australia, with the higest per capita emissions, is responsible. Recent research by Dr Jonathon Patz shows clearly that those countries emitting the most CO2 are also the least likely to suffer as a result. With the prospect of death and dispossesion of many people in the two-thirds world as a result of climate change, including a possible 150 million environmental refugees in our region, we think it is incumbent upon the Australian government to take action now.
We see social justice as an integral part of any greenhouse actions. We reject any plans by the Australian government to explore nuclear power as a solution to climate change because it will impose unfair costs on indigenous people, on the environment and on many future generations of Australians. It will make Australia more firmly part of the nuclear cycle that inevitably leads to nuclear weapons.
Spokesperson for QNFA member group, Everyone For a Nuclear Free Future, Kim Stewart says, "Nuclear power is the mad-man's solution to climate change. It simply makes no sense environmentally, socially, even economically. If Science Minister Brendan Nelson has a problem of conscience about Australia's uranium we say to him - leave it in the ground."
The QNFA is a network of organisations dedicated to the elimination of the nuclear industry in Australia.
QNFA member groups will be supporting the IDA in Brisbane, 1pm at King George Square.
MEDIA: 0413 397 839
'Climate or Social Justice Opinion' is NOT valid engineering.
The CRITERIA for power generation
i) is NOT opinion, but PERFORMANCE, it
ii) is NOT based on 'renewable/alternative', it IS based on performance, it
iii) is NOT based on rhetoric, but ENGINEERING using well known SCIENCE, and performance.
It is pointless 'greenhouse platforming' to 'demand' cessation of Uranium use, to demand cessation of Gas/Oil/Coal use, yet be unable to explain why in SCIENCE there should even be considered 'unnatural climate change' or to produce valid theory as to HOW 'greenhouse processes' can produce warming.
I notice in today's 'The Daily Telegraph' the 'great global catastrophe' rated 2 inches of single column several pages in, and still mentioned Bob Carr saying how terrible 'greenhouse emissions are' along with Uranium...
It is time for the 'platforming' to move on to the MINIMISATION of Uranium usage by promoting the use of clean Gas fuelled technology, or become even more redundant and irrelevant. The 'damage' has been done; it can only be reduced now, not stopped, by fostering greater use of Gas as the PRIMARY alternative to Uranium at the present. There is more than ample Gas to fire the generation of electrical power, it is only burnt off at present in many 'operations', as it is artificially either too expensive to use at present or is simply subjected to vapid 'greenhouse protest'.
But either way, PERFORMANCE is the primary consideration and as such Uranium IS capable, and as example for Australian needs and ~20 Million population, it is in the end the ability to produce the ~300 Trillion watt/hours projected as Australian 'future needs' in increasing from the present ~180 Trillion watt/hours over the next ~25 years, that is of primary concern for Generation Utilities, not whether these utilities are 'renewable' with the next consideration being to make minimal pollution from THOSE utilities that CAN perform as needed.
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Welcome to the 'greenhouse' induced 'Uranium Age'.
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Again, solar generation is near already 80% efficient, the limit to solar generation is the energy actually incident to the surface. This can be seen in the atmospheric absorbance chart in the link below. Imagine the horizontal hypotenuse is the planetary surface, the closer the 'plot' gets to the surface, the more energy is there incident and available to Solar Generation, and there is not that much.
Next, Wind and Tidal power relies on Turbine & Generator efficiency, but these technologies are common to all Utilities, including Uranium.
See comment and slides at:-
http://www.ucimc.org/newswire/display/113579/index.php#comments
and notice the first slide of energy/atmosphere interactions, the lowest points indicate near or surface incidence for regard with "Solar' bases utilities.
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Peter K Anderson aka Hartlod
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