Nuclear 2.0: Why a green future needs nuclear power
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Overview
Everything you thought you knew about nuclear power is wrong. This is just as well, because nuclear energy is essential to avoid catastrophic global warming.
While renewables will surely play an important part in our future energy strategy, expecting them to deliver all the world’s power is dangerously delusional. In 2014, statistics showed that wind and solar power contributed only 1 per cent of global primary energy. Similarly, while energy saving has a key role to play in the developed world, there is no possibility of humanity as a whole using less energy while the developing world is extracting itself from poverty. And the fact is that the anti-nuclear movement of the 1970s and ’80s has made the world more dependent on fossil fuels.
In Nuclear 2.0, environmental campaigner Mark Lynas debunks the myths that have cast nuclear energy in a bad light. Often overlooked because of concerns surrounding nuclear waste and radiation poisoning after the Chernobyl disaster, atomic energy is one of the most impressive sources of low-carbon power. In this enlightening read, Mark looks at the science and re-evaluates the situation to unravel why our future is threatened not just by the big fossil-fuel companies, but also the professional anti-nuclear Green groups.
This book is a call for all those who want to see a low-carbon future to join forces and advocate a huge, Apollo-Program-scale investment in wind, solar and nuclear power.
A book that re-evaluates the role that nuclear energy has to play in a green future.
A short but important book on nuclear energy, outlining the role it should play in our future and debunking nuclear energy myths.
There are plenty of books on renewable energy sources but in 2014, they only contributed to one per cent of our global primary energy. Another strategy is needed, and this book offers a refreshingly honest and realistic solution.
Written by environmental campaigner Mark Lynas, this book controversially argues that anti-nuclear protests – many of which are run by Mark’s friends – are actually putting us at risk.
Aimed at all who want a low carbon future and with some potential to be used as an environmental studies text.
Introduction
1. How we got to where we are
2. The carbon challenge
3. The N-word
4. The case against: nuclear accidents and radiation
5. Next generation: Nuclear 2.0
6. The spectre of climate change
7. All of the above
Notes
Index
A passionate appeal to environmentalists to embrace all the tools available that can tackle climate change. This book deserves to be read.
- Title: Nuclear 2.0: Why a green future needs nuclear power
- Author: Mark Lynas
- Publisher: UIT Cambridge Ltd.
- Print Publication Date: 2014
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Pages: 112
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781906860462, 1906860467
- Resource ID: LLS:9781906860462
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-22T14:41:33Z
Mark Lynas is an environmental writer and campaigner whose previous books have drawn attention to the perils of global warming. He is Vice-Chair of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Emerging Technologies, a Visiting Research Associate at Oxford University's School of Geography and the Environment, and was Climate Advisor to the President of the Maldives from 2009 to 2011. He recently featured in the movie documentary Pandora's Promise, which inspired the writing of this book.