{"id":234,"date":"2010-04-17T06:52:39","date_gmt":"2010-04-17T06:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/?p=234"},"modified":"2010-05-26T05:35:54","modified_gmt":"2010-05-26T05:35:54","slug":"the-%e2%80%98greed-is-good%e2%80%99-argument-against-nukiller-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/?p=234","title":{"rendered":"The &#8216;Greed is Good&#8217; Argument Against Nukiller Power."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are some arguments for doing the right thing which<br \/>\nsound almost counter intuitive.<\/p>\n<p>For example:<\/p>\n<p>If one were to establish a Ron &amp; Reggie Kray memorial institute<br \/>\nfor the victims of knife crimes.<\/p>\n<p>or<\/p>\n<p>By promoting the &#8216;Greed is Good&#8217; argument against nukiller<br \/>\npower.<\/p>\n<p>Yet this is not a counter intuitive argument in economic terms.<\/p>\n<p>Given all the hidden costs of nukiller power,<br \/>\nplus all of the long term costs of storing and safeguarding the<br \/>\nradioactive waste,<br \/>\nthen it is very hard to see how anyone could ever make a profit<br \/>\nwithout the tax payer shoulder the long term costs.<\/p>\n<p>No wonder the companies involved in the industry are arguing<br \/>\nso strongly that we poor tax payers should pay for all the<br \/>\nunprofitable parts of the industry.<\/p>\n<p>Just look at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.world-nuclear.org\/info\/inf67.html\" target=\"_blank\">insurance rates<\/a> for each reactor.<\/p>\n<p>At a time when there is going to be so much social harm as a<br \/>\nresult of cuts in government spending,<br \/>\nis it really reasonable to keep subsidising the nukiller power<br \/>\nindustry ?<\/p>\n<p>Last year <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alliancemagazine.org\/node\/2971\" target=\"_blank\">George Soros<\/a> pledged to put his money into helping to<br \/>\nstop global warming from carbon emissions.<\/p>\n<p>Just keep in mind that the nukiller power industry also<br \/>\ngenerates a lot of carbon emissions,<\/p>\n<p>Whether the Soros fund will also be used to help campaign against<br \/>\nthe building of new nukiller reactors remains to be seen?<\/p>\n<p>We still have to find out.<\/p>\n<p>What we really need is more people like Soros coming out<br \/>\nagainst the building of nukiller reactors.<\/p>\n<p>There is a lot of money at stake in terms of the nukiller power<br \/>\nindustry,<br \/>\nbut better returns are to be made by the alternatives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are some arguments for doing the right thing which sound almost counter intuitive. For example: If one were to establish a Ron &amp; Reggie Kray memorial institute for the victims of knife crimes. or By promoting the &#8216;Greed is Good&#8217; argument against nukiller power. Yet this is not a counter intuitive argument in economic &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/?p=234\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The &#8216;Greed is Good&#8217; Argument Against Nukiller Power.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241,"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions\/241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}