‘Climate First’? The Ethical and Political Implications of Pronuclear Policy in Addressing Climate Change

Parson, Sean

doi:10.1080/21550085.2012.672686

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“…This suggests that most societies who want to maintain a high electricity-consuming lifestyle and reduce carbon dioxide emissions must also accept nuclear power, at least for the foreseeable future. The same conclusion has been drawn by environmentalists, such as James Lovelock, who are now supporting increased use of nuclear power (Parson 2012). But continued high consumption of electricity implies that we can expect more Fukushima-type events in the future.…”

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After Fukushima: nuclear power and societal choice

Löfquist

2013

Journal of Risk Research

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The main objective of article is to evaluate nuclear power in relation to alternative energy sources. A central claim is that the accident in Fukushima does not change the challenges facing the global system for electricity production. Given the need to minimize climate change and that nuclear power provides electricity with lower carbon emissions than fossil fuels, it is impossible to replace both nuclear power and fossil fuel plants in a few years. These plants provide a substantial part of our total generating capacity and cannot be easily substituted. However, if we made significant but non-radical reductions of our electricity consumption, the process of replacing both nuclear power and fossil fuels with renewable sources becomes easier. Reduction can be motivated by an egalitarian theory of justice which claims that it is wrong to maintain a lifestyle that threatens present humans and transfers risks unto future generations. Finally, it is concluded that our total electricity consumption is as important as its production when we plan for our society's energy future.

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After Fukushima: nuclear power and societal choice

Löfquist

2013

Journal of Risk Research

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“…In the UK, notable environmental campaigners including James Lovelock and George Monbiot publicly declared their support, further bolstering the political legitimacy of pro-nuclear policy strategies (Johnstone, 2010;Parson, 2012). Another significant feature of the nuclear renaissance is that pro-nuclear energy policy strategies appeared not to cause significant public opposition from the citizenry of affected countries (including the UK) (Joscow & Parsons, 2012).…”

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Rebirth, Devastation and Sickness: Analyzing the Role of Metaphor in Media Discourses of Nuclear Power

Renzi¹,

Cotton

Napolitano

et al. 2016

Environmental Communication

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Nuclear power plays an important but controversial role in policies to ensure domestic energy security, fuel poverty reduction and the mitigation of climate change. Our article construes the problem of nuclear power in terms of social discourse, language and public choice; specifically examining the role that metaphors play in the policy domain. We empirically analyze metaphors as framing devices in nuclear energy policy debates in the UK between April 2009 and March 2013, thereby capturing the impact of the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011. We employ documentary analysis of major UK national broadsheet and tabloid newspapers, using electronic bibliographic tools to extract the metaphors. We then map these metaphors using a Type Hierarchy Analysis, which examines how elements of the target domain (energy technologies and policies) originate from a different source domain. Type hierarchies identify and categorize metaphors, defining the affectual and emotional responses associated with them, providing us with grounded insight into their role in shaping discourse and as a consequence influence public engagement with energy policy. Our analysis highlights three emergent domains of discourse metaphors and discusses the implications of their deployment. Metaphors were found to be classified into three different categories: Rebirth (Renaissance), Devastation (Apocalypse, Inferno, Genie and Bomb) and Sickness (Addiction and Smoking). ARTICLE HISTORY

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‘Don’t Think of Fukushima!’: The Ethics of Risk Reframing in ‘Nuclear for Climate’ Communications

Katz-Rosene

2021

Ethics, Policy & Environment

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‘Climate First’? The Ethical and Political Implications of Pronuclear Policy in Addressing Climate Change

Cited by 3 publications

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After Fukushima: nuclear power and societal choice

After Fukushima: nuclear power and societal choice

Rebirth, Devastation and Sickness: Analyzing the Role of Metaphor in Media Discourses of Nuclear Power

‘Don’t Think of Fukushima!’: The Ethics of Risk Reframing in ‘Nuclear for Climate’ Communications

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