From Energy Dreams to Nuclear Nightmares: Lessons from the Anti-nuclear Power Movement in the 1970sThis book challenges the existing histories and explanations for the growth of the anti-nuclear power movement in the United Kingdom from 1955 to 1979. Arguing that opposition to nuclear power emerged in the 1970s because of the concerns of a minority of people about the dangers of atomic energy, based on the ecological messages contained in bestselling science fiction novels from the late 1940s to mid 1960s. Showing how a minority of the 1960s underground press blended old conservation ideas with counterculture styles to create new radical groups such as Friends of the Earth, this analysis also seeks to answer questions such as Why an anti-nuclear power movement instead of an anti-coal or anti-asbestos movement? What was it about nuclear power that generated such opposition its environmental impact, its cost, its prospects or its symbolism? and Could wind power in the 21st century face the same forces that opposed nuclear power 30 years ago? " |
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... radical psychiatrist , attacking factory farming as a symbol of oppression and violence not only to animals but also to humans.34 This unself - conscious mixing of the old conservation ideas on health and nutrition with new ...
... radical psychiatrist , attacking factory farming as a symbol of oppression and violence not only to animals but also to humans.34 This unself - conscious mixing of the old conservation ideas on health and nutrition with new ...
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... radical circles . The WIN article uses the terms ' ecological crisis ' and ' ecological consciousness ' , and mentions the work of Ecology Action , a radical group in California . Commoner , perhaps reflecting his ' environmental ...
... radical circles . The WIN article uses the terms ' ecological crisis ' and ' ecological consciousness ' , and mentions the work of Ecology Action , a radical group in California . Commoner , perhaps reflecting his ' environmental ...
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... radical groups such as the Young Liberals , and later FoE . Nevertheless ConSoc played an important role in the development of the emerging environmental movement of the 1970s and as Wall commented : " The society acted as a ...
... radical groups such as the Young Liberals , and later FoE . Nevertheless ConSoc played an important role in the development of the emerging environmental movement of the 1970s and as Wall commented : " The society acted as a ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The saga of reprocessing | 10 |
Twentieth century nuclear visions | 13 |
Copyright | |
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