Nuclear power is based on uranium, which is a limited resource. The scarcer the uranium posits get, the more difficult it is to retrieve and mill them. It favors a highly centralized and rigidly controlled regime for security reasons. We want a widely distributed, direct grass roots democracy as as a political regime. Even without those, it is just absolutely not resable.
Michael Shermer speaks with scientist, educator, activist, and accomplished author, Fritjof Capra, about the evolution of his thinking over five decades. In this conversation, based on Capra’s book, Patterns of Connection, Shermer and Capra discuss: what it means to be spiritual in an age of science, nuclear energy and why Capra thinks we don’t need it and Shermer thinks we do, 50 years of progress or regress, limitations of models and theories of reality, limitations of analogies between western physics and eastern mysticism, mind and consciousness, and why Capra is hopeful for the future of humanity.