Word contract on energy n.2

Phase out fossil fuels reviving nuclear is unrealistic and must be excluded. Nuclear must be abandoned because:

Uranium is neither a renewable nor a sustainable resource

It entails serious security risks and an enormous environmental impact linked to the production of radioactive waste, which inevitably accumulates in the ecosystem and will burden on the future generations for thousands of years

It exposes the world to the risks of nuclear weapons proliferation and terrorism;

It is unable to solve the energy and climate change problems. Uranium resources are not sufficient to hope for an increase in installed capacity in order to cover a significant quota of the new energy demand, and in fact it is unavoidable that the programmes for super fast reactors have failed so far, and that fusion is not part of the practicable options.

It has too high direct and indirect costs, which are imposed on the society

It entails a centralised generation model, based on large power plants, highly questionable from a security and the right to energy point of view. A model that requires monopolistic, authoritarian and antidemocratic management systems.

Only by producing electricity and heath with solar resources and using the energy produced rationally, efficiently and with a sense of the limit, it is possible to:

guarantee energy for all and thus tackle poverty and underdevelopment;

stop climate change and air pollution

favour democracy and participation, because renewable energy sources are widely available and cannot be monopolised, unlike oil, coal, methane and nuclear.

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