Moore: ‘There’s too much pop environmentalism’

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Do you feel vindicated that the greens’ opposition to nuclear energy is proving to be harmful to the environment?

I wouldn’t say vindicated as much as unfortunate that all of us — including me in the ’70s — who were leading the environmental movement made this mistake of being against nuclear energy. We were caught up in the anti-nuclear war movement and we made the mistake of thinking everything nuclear was bad. We didn’t make the distinction. Vinod Khosla, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, said if it was not for the environmental movement, there would be a lot fewer coal-fired plants in the world today and a lot more nuclear plants. We actually did something very negative back then.
It is one of the reasons I work so hard to change the perception because I think it was a serious error.