Michael Shellenberger (author of 9 publications indexed on Scopus) author of the joke book "Apocalypse Never" is almost like the famous endlessly-optimistic character of Voltaire (Prof.
Pangloss) who kept saying that "we live in the best of all possible worlds" even after having being tortured!
The
difference between Shellenberger (the poster boy of the nuclear business) and Prof. Pangloss is that the latter had
no idea what nuclear energy was while the former believes that only nuclear
energy will save Humanity:
"few things make one feel more immortal than saving the life of a
nuclear plant. Maybe that´s because nuclear energy itself could be said to be
immortal...Today´s nuclear plants can easily operate from eightyyears and
might run for one hundred..."
https://www.amazon.com/Apocalypse-Never-Environmental-Alarmism-Hurts/dp/0063001691
https://www.amazon.com/Apocalypse-Never-Environmental-Alarmism-Hurts/dp/0063001691
Unfortunately, the moment we "speak" nuclear energy is already "saving" the ocean
