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What disturbed me were the personal attacks hurled on Lovelock, some people saying essentially that he is "a crazy old man who has lost the faith".

What we need instead are deployable solutions and not useless soundbites like these:

"Lovelock is right to demand a drastic response to climate change," said Stephen Tindale, executive director of Greenpeace UK. "But he's wrong to think nuclear power is any part of the answer. Nuclear creates enormous problems: waste we don't know what to do with; radioactive emissions; unavoidable risk of accident and terrorist attack."

Tony Juniper, director of Friends of the Earth, said, "Climate change and radioactive waste both pose deadly long-term threats, and we have a moral duty to minimize the effects of both, not to choose between them" (McCarthy, London Independent). Googled

Amazing that the "T" word was pulled out of the hat by the Director of Greenpeace; is there not one sane person left alive on this planet?

Any response to such a surprising suggestion from a man like Lovelock should be met with real, tangible counter proposals, not empty words - they havent even got the bottle to make vapourware proposals. People give credibility to facts, not soundbytes. Amazingly, the only sound countering the suggestion that Nuclear power is a viable short term solution, in every case where this story comes up, are the same two talking heads with meaningless soundbytes. The Friends of the Earth website has as its focus, the new film "The day after tomorrow". Then later on it has this gem:

Can we stop climate change?
Only if we all - Governments, organisations and individuals - take real action to combat it.

Yeah Babe. We are all for "real action", but what that means in this case, is doing what Ecover do: research and development into products that do what needs to be done, and then marketing them. Instead of climbing up Big Ben, going to endless conferences and being rowdy, these people need to form R&D groups to create the things we need to solve real problems.

And it would not take alot of money. Did you know that the first artificial virus was created for around $200,000? Thats not alot of money at all, and I mention this specifically because it looks like biology is going to be behind the solar revolution. There is already work availble to make Organic Solar Cells That looks fascinating. You can bet that all of it is patented.

If money isnt put into R&D for the benefit of all there are going to be serious consequences for everybody.

BP are puttting millions into Solar Power research. They want to create highly efficient solar power units that they sell to you, install at your home and then CHARGE YOU FOR THE ELECTRICITY THAT THE UNIT PRODUCES.....FROM THE SUN.. Imagine if these solar cells use a patetented technology. That would mean that it would be impossible for anyone else other than BP to deploy these cells, (unless it was under licence). They would be in a position to prevent the world wide rollout of highly efficient, royalty free solar power cells providing free electricity for at least 20 years.

Now. A small team funded by environmentalists world-wide could produce that same innovation and then patent it to protect everyone on earth from the work being monopolized. This is the sort of thing that we need to see being done. Whining to governments is a waste of energy. Make the goods that people need and they will buy them; Ecover have prooved this. Make a solar cell kit that will reduce my electricity bill and increase the value of my property and I will buy it. Grid consumption goes down as a consequence.

Its really that simple!

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