Greenpeace

Sometimes people with the best of intentions cause more problems than they fix. One good example is Greenpeace. Here is a statement from Greenpeace. Greenpeace has always fought - and will continue to fight - vigorously against nuclear power because it is an unacceptable risk to the environment and to humanity. The only solution is to halt the expansion of all nuclear power, and for the shutdown of existing plants. Greenpeace used fear and misinformation to limit the use of nuclear power. Every year, nuclear-generated electricity saves our atmosphere from more than 470 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions that would otherwise come from fossil fuels. Nuclear only generates 20% of the worlds energy. If groups like Greenpeace had not interfered the United States would have led the world into carbon free power. Of the 253 nuclear power reactors originally ordered in the US from 1953 to 2008 only 92 were completed because of misinformation. Today it is the Greenies, once again with the best of intentions, that are leading the world down the primrose path of wind and solar.