http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/06/10/241882/small-is-beautiful-robert-bryce/
“Small IS Beautiful”! Robert Bryce
Pushes Nuclear Power by Quoting
Famous Author Who Called It “an
Ethical, Spiritual, and
Metaphysical Monstrosity”
By Stephen Lacey on Jun 10, 2011 at 12:38 pm
The NY Times has published an error-riddled
op-ed by Manhattan Institute
disinformer Robert Bryce. The piece
makes a decidedly schizophrenic and
misleading case against renewable energy
in California. Bryce argues that because
large-scale renewable energy projects
have some local environmental impact,
we should avoid developing them and
instead focus on much more dangerous
fossil fuels and nuclear.
The former “paper of record” should be
embarrassed to run pro-dirty -energy
disinformation from someone so widely
refuted (see “Debunking Robert Bryce’s
power hungry gusher of lies“). In
particular, Bryce actually has the
chutzpah to quote economist E. F.
Schumacher’s famous line “Small is
beautiful” to promote fossil fuels and
nuclear power — when Schumacher
wanted us to get off of fossil fuels and
was strongly anti-nuke!
<snip>
Climate Progress contacted Bill McKibben,
who wrote the Foreword to a re-release
of Schumacher’s 1973 classic, “Small is
Beautiful: Economics as if People
Mattered.” We asked him what he
thought about Bryce quoting Schumacher
this way. He replied:
<snip>
The full op-ed is worth debunking in
detail because Bryce is pushing a bunch
of anti-clean -energy talking points that
are becoming popular in conservative
circles. Progressives need to know how
to debunk them. We’ll try to cover the
key points here with useful charts.
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