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Climate Change: Why Nuclear Power is not the Answer
For many activists nuclear power has always been anathema, something too dangerous to use. But given the threat of climate change many are also asking, "What other solution is there?". Martin Empson explains why nuclear power is not the answer to climate change. He shows why governments are really hooked on nuclear power and he looks at the genuine solutions to climate change we urgently need.
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First published January 1, 2006
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About the author
Martin Empson
19 books171 followersMartin Empson is based in Manchester, in the UK and is a long standing socialist and environmental activist.
His latest book is The Time of the Harvest has Come!: Revolution, Reformation and the German Peasants' War, published for the 500th anniversary of the great central European uprising, and placing it in the context of the rise of capitalism and the Reformation.
In 2019 Martin edited the book "System Change not Climate Change: A Revolutionary Response to Environmental Crisis". It was a collection of essays on the environment by Marxists from around the world including Kohei Saito, Ian Angus, Michelle Robidoux, Camilla Royle, Ian Rappel and Amy Leather.
His book "Kill All the Gentlemen: Class Struggle and Change in the English Countryside" was published Bookmarks Publications in 2018. It is a history of the fight by rural communities to defend their rights and traditions in the face of the development of capitalist relations.
His first book, "Land and Labour: Marxism, Ecology and Human History" was published by Bookmarks Publications in early 2014. Martin draws on a Marxist understanding of history to grapple with the contradictory potential of our relationship with our environment. In so doing he shows that human action is key, both to the destruction of nature and to the possibility of a sustainable solution to the ecological crises of the 21st century.
Martin is also the author several popular pamphlets, including "Marxism and Ecology: Capitalism, Socialism and the Future of the Planet", "Climate Change: Why Nuclear Power is not the Answer" and "The Great Climate COP Out: Why COP26 will not solve the environmental crisis".
His latest book is The Time of the Harvest has Come!: Revolution, Reformation and the German Peasants' War, published for the 500th anniversary of the great central European uprising, and placing it in the context of the rise of capitalism and the Reformation.
In 2019 Martin edited the book "System Change not Climate Change: A Revolutionary Response to Environmental Crisis". It was a collection of essays on the environment by Marxists from around the world including Kohei Saito, Ian Angus, Michelle Robidoux, Camilla Royle, Ian Rappel and Amy Leather.
His book "Kill All the Gentlemen: Class Struggle and Change in the English Countryside" was published Bookmarks Publications in 2018. It is a history of the fight by rural communities to defend their rights and traditions in the face of the development of capitalist relations.
His first book, "Land and Labour: Marxism, Ecology and Human History" was published by Bookmarks Publications in early 2014. Martin draws on a Marxist understanding of history to grapple with the contradictory potential of our relationship with our environment. In so doing he shows that human action is key, both to the destruction of nature and to the possibility of a sustainable solution to the ecological crises of the 21st century.
Martin is also the author several popular pamphlets, including "Marxism and Ecology: Capitalism, Socialism and the Future of the Planet", "Climate Change: Why Nuclear Power is not the Answer" and "The Great Climate COP Out: Why COP26 will not solve the environmental crisis".
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