32: Marco Visscher: The wonders of nuclear power
The Brendan O'Neill Show
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🗓️ 18 February 2020
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Eco-modernist Marco Visscher on the promise of nuclear power, the limits of Extinction Rebellion’s doom-mongering and why economic growth is good for the environment.
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| 0:51.0 | We can give a village in Africa a handful of solar panels and you know they |
| 0:56.2 | may make some progress but not too much right? This may be the biggest problem with |
| 1:01.4 | the environmentalists who keep thinking small. |
| 1:09.0 | Hello and welcome to the Brendan O'Neill show with me Brendan O'Neill. This is a podcast in which an esteemed |
| 1:15.4 | guest joins me to talk about the big ideas, the bad ideas, the problems and the |
| 1:20.3 | controversies of life in the early 21st century. |
| 1:23.8 | In this episode I am delighted to be joined by Marco Visser. |
| 1:27.4 | Marco is a Dutch journalist and author. |
| 1:30.4 | He writes for newspapers in the Netherlands and Belgium. He is in my view one of the most interesting |
| 1:36.0 | and critical voices on questions of environmentalism, climate change, progress and optimism. |
| 1:43.7 | He is the author of the energy transition, |
| 1:46.3 | a book about moving on from fossil fuels |
| 1:48.9 | in a way that might actually work and be sensible. |
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