A Reaction To Oliver Stone’s “Nuclear Now”

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Subject: Your Reaction To Oliver Stone’s “Nuclear Now”
From: Solutions
Date: Mon, May 1, 2023 10:31 pm PST
To: ReadingLiberally-SaltLake@johnkarls.com
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Dear John,

I am wondering what your reaction to “Nuclear Now” was/is.

I am also wondering whether you stand by the title to the Short Quiz – “Is ‘A Bright Future’ [the book on which ‘Nuclear Now’ is based] A Cruel Hoax To Falsely Disqualify Nuclear Energy For Cost Reasons?” – which BTW was also the last question in the Short Quiz.

Your friend,

Solutions


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Subject: Re: Your [My] Reaction To Oliver Stone’s “Nuclear Now”
From: ReadingLiberally-SaltLake@johnkarls.com
Date: Tue, May 2, 2023 9:02 am MST
To: Solutions
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Dear Solutions,

Thank you for your inquiries.

Taking them in reverse order, I believe that whether “A Bright Future” is a “cruel hoax…..” is a legitimate question for discussion. After all, it ignores cost considerations virtually completely as documented in the Suggested Answers to the Short Quiz.

HOWEVER, vis-à-vis “Nuclear Now” I believe there can be no doubt that Oliver Stone is a passionate “true believer”!!!

Yes, it is true that he ignored thorium completely (if memory serves) and that the various issues are presented in a somewhat disjointed fashion (which is the nature of documentaries which comprise, largely, a series of interviews).

BUT I admired how he hammered away at how nuclear energy is the victim of a long-time “scare campaign” that was NOT warranted.

AND I admired how he emphasized that climate change is such an existential threat to humankind that it is time to re-examine whether the “scare campaign” with which humanity has been “brain washed” is accurate.

AND I admired how he emphasized that young people have, by and large, been willing to re-examine the “scare campaign” and discard it.

BRAVISSIMO, OLIVER STONE!!!

BTW, all of the movie theaters in 37 states had only one showing – last evening – so I am hoping that I won’t have to travel to see it again before our May 17 meeting (it would have been illegal, though perhaps not unethical under the circumstances, to have made an in-theater recording for reference purposes).

Your friend,

John K.