This is a documentary film by director, Robert Stone that makes the green case for nuclear energy in regard to the energy sources’ controversial beliefs. We have made believe that nuclear energy is synonymous with global disaster thanks to the atomic bomb and meltdowns like Fukushima. This film makes us wonder about nuclear energy and its effect on society that suggests we should stop worrying about it and start to love it. Stone argues that nuclear is a hugely efficient and relatively clean energy source that is now vitally needed, as billions of people in emerging economies such as India, China and Brazil are hungry for power. And while wind turbines and solar energy panels are the most environmentally friendly source of getting energy they simply don’t meet even a fraction of the urgent needs.
In the film we could see the personal stories of environmentalists and energy experts who went from being fiercely anti to strongly pro-nuclear energy, and how they risked their careers and reputations in the process. They show how this technology that we fear the most could save our planet from climate catastrophe and can provide the energy who billions of people in third world countries need to get out of poverty.
So maybe nuclear energy is not that bad after all and once again we are given more proof that we must consider all angles of a problem before completely discarding it as harmful and useless.
I like how you have your own personal opinion added in to this blog. Before I watched Pandora’s Promise, I was kind of against nuclear energy as well. It is interesting to see the turn in opinion of the scientists within this video. If they can have that turn, then most of the general population probably can too. Nuclear energy could save our planet, and we all need to take a better look into it. Well written, nice job!
Great job with this post. The movie definitely gave me some insight into why I was slightly ambivalent and against nuclear energy before. I think it has a lot to do with some of the nuclear disasters that happened in the past, but when we think about it we only have a real choice between nuclear energy and oil/gas power.