Young climate activists in Europe are calling on Greenpeace to drop its “old-fashioned” stance against nuclear energy.

Activists from five EU countries have launched the Dear Greenpeace campaign, asking the well-established environmental organization to get on board with what they see as a necessary tool in the fight against climate change.

“It’s a message of desperation from my generation to theirs,” Ia Aanstoot, an 18-year-old Swedish climate activist, told As It Happens host Nil Köksal.

“We are really, really desperate to have them in the struggle against fossil fuels. And it feels like a betrayal for them to be going up against nuclear power.”

Greenpeace and other critics of nuclear power, meanwhile, say it continues to be too dangerous, polluting, and cost-prohibitive to be a viable solution to the climate crisis.

Read more here:

CBC News
September 7, 2023