Tribune: nuclear will not save the climate

About twenty associations and movements engaged in the fight for the climate denounce in this gallery the offensive of the nuclear industry to appear greener and call to engage more intensely in the energy transition.

Nuclear to save the climate?Believing it is at best a technical illusion, at worst a terrible hypocrisy.If the nuclear sector tries more than ever to repaint itself in green, this is not a sincere or virtuous concern.It is the fruit of a strategic and fundamentally political choice.

La filière sait qu’elle joue sa survie en vantant ses faibles émissions de CO₂, au moment où des centaines de milliers des personnes ont repris la rue le 9 mai dernier pour dénoncer l’inaction climatique du gouvernement et le sabotage des propositions de la Convention citoyenne pour le climat.Cornered after the bankruptcy of Areva, the Uramin scandal and EDF's setbacks on its EPR construction sites, it found in the climatic argument the new means of ensuring its sustainability and its grip.

The show has something to be disconcerting.While the environmental movement was built in the 1970s in France against the rise of the nuclear industry, we see the latter trying today to invest our fields.The offensive is general.It is done with great advertising campaigns with the support of several elected officials, influencers and virulent attacks on social networks against nuclear energy critics. L’enjeu est de taille : tenter de faire basculer l’opinion publique pour rendre acceptable la construction de nouveaux réacteurs, en utilisant comme fer de lance leurs faibles émissions de CO₂.

Faced with the climate fire, Emmanuel Macron prefers to light counter-fires and has made his intention to relaunch the nuclear industry for months.By diversioning with nuclear, the government seeks to divide forces within the social movement and the environmental movement.

Slow, vulnerable, polluting and too expensive technology

But we, associations, organizations, collectives are not fooled.We fight for the climate and against nuclear because we know that this technology and the model that accompanies it is not a valid solution to deal with climatic, social and democratic emergencies.

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— Kaddy Shacks Mon Aug 31 20:20:38 +0000 2020

We will not choose between plague and cholera

Despite the aggressive seduction operation that it leads to the theme of "the best friend's decarbon energy of the climate", the nuclear industry is not up to the task!We are not fooled by this maneuver.We refuse unhealthy blackmail between climate risk and nuclear risk.We will not choose between plague and cholera.The world that nuclear power carries is irreconcilable with any form of real ecological transition.Nuclear is not only an energy, it is a fundamentally authoritarian social and economic order.

We have been saying it for over fifty years.Some like Vital Michalon or Fernando Pereira even paid him for their lives.Wherever it stands out, the atom is incompatible with democracy.It extends through violence and despises the opinions of the populations.Even today, the way nuclear continues to set up in France is unacceptable.

In Bure, against the nuclear trash can project, activists undergo a brutal repression, unworthy of a rule of law.Series of searches have been carried out, demonstrations have been prohibited and seven activists will pass on trial on June 1, 2 and 3 for "criminal association".They risk several years in prison while their judicial file is empty, as revealed by several journalistic surveys.On June 29, thirty-four Greenpeace activists had to be tried in Valence for the symbolic disassembly of the Tricastin power station.In 2020, dozens of climate activists were continued by an anti -terrorist wrestling office for symbolically closing the portraits of Macron.

Fighting climate change and nuclear changes is fighting to go beyond a productivist, extractivist and neocolonial system, where the myth of "cheap energy" is accompanied by the looting of resources and the devastation of ecosystems andSocieties in the southern countries and areas seen as "peripherals".Total arranges with the military junta in Burma, Orano makes his business in Niger and initiate crimes in Namibia with Uramin.

Let's get out of the ambiguity: to end nuclear power, energy of the old world, is a condition for going towards scenarios of ecological, energetic and democratic transition and democratic and build desirable future.

First signatories: Greenpeace, Alternatiba, Les Amis de la Terre France, ANV-COP21, ATTAC France, France Nature Environnement, Action Action Climate, Solidaires, Danielle Mitterrand Foundation, Stop Cigeo coordination, NDDL Pursu, Sdn 27, sdn 49, sdn berry-pupil, alofu tuvalu, collective nuclear alarm of Orleans, Attac Nîmes, movement resilience.

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