I promised to alert folks when video was available of the heated discussion I moderated recently between Robert Stone, the director of "Pandora's Promise," the new film in which five former foes of nuclear energy defend this power source, and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the Pace University law professor and environmental firebrand. Here it is*, courtesy of the Jacob Burns Film Center, which hosted the debate after a screening.
It's a brisk and frequently heated exchange in which I barely had time to step in and separate or reorient the two men. Kennedy set the tone from the start by answering my request for his Siskel-Ebert style review with this line:
If I had to characterize the film, I would say it's an elaborate hoax. Almost every fact in it that's presented as facts is untrue or misleading.
Stone initially rocked in his chair as if absorbing a body blow, but held his ground. Kennedy's most convincing points were on the economics of nuclear energy (an area the film avoids tackling), while Stone effectively challenged assertions about health risks.
Toward the end, I said we'd need to do a blow-by-blow fact-checking exercise to test which assertions were correct. Nonetheless, the video is worth watching as a vivid illustration of how people with deep concerns about human-driven climate change can have starkly different visions of how to blunt warming and limit risks.
Another illustration of the deep divisions among environmentalists came in the days following the Fukushima nuclear calamity, when Bill McKibben and a British counterpart, George Monbiot, drew utterly divergent lessons from the disaster.
I hope you'll have a look and weigh in. My previous posts on the film are here.
[*I apologize for the slight lag between the imagery and audio.]
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