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Cognitive scientist at Harvard.

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pinker.wjh.harvard.edu
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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker 19 Apr 2016

    Though Joshua Goldstein & I said it first: Inconvenient truths for the environmental movement. http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2015/11/23/inconvenient-truths-for-environmental-movement/esDloe97894keW16Ywa9MP/story.html?event=event25 … via @BostonGlobe

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      2. Galway Curiousblue‏ @iamcuriousblue 19 Apr 2016
        Replying to @sapinker

        @sapinker Are you seriously going to dismiss very real concerns about transport and final disposal of nuclear waste as "irrational"?

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      3. Peter Hague‏ @petehague 19 Apr 2016
        Replying to @iamcuriousblue

        @iamcuriousblue @sapinker 4th gen reactors are going to be cheap, safe, and consume waste. What the industry actually delivers, however...

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      2. ] [‏ @Baardkj 20 Apr 2016
        Replying to @funnicegoodkind

        @funnicegoodkind @sapinker @BostonGlobe this is such a tired line. "so" politically incorrect yet it surfaces in every one of these debates.

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      4. ] [‏ @Baardkj 20 Apr 2016
        Replying to @funnicegoodkind

        @funnicegoodkind not 100% sure what U meant, but if-environment overpopulation-, tired, this conveniently "hides" factors about ourselves

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      6. ] [‏ @Baardkj 20 Apr 2016
        Replying to @funnicegoodkind

        @funnicegoodkind not much "fear". It's being borught up all the time. Organizations work for it.

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      8. ] [‏ @Baardkj 20 Apr 2016
        Replying to @funnicegoodkind

        @funnicegoodkind some parts of the US aren't even wanting to consider climate change even, so that explains a lot of it, I think.

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      1. The Cup Is Half Full Metal Alchemist‏ @Jeffrey_of_Troy 22 Apr 2016
        Replying to @sapinker

        @sapinker @BostonGlobe AGW is hoax & fraud; Nuke power creates waste that's extremely harmful for 1000's/yrs. You are not rational.

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      1. Brendon J. Brewer‏ @brendonbrewer 21 Apr 2016
        Replying to @sapinker

        @sapinker @hbdchick @BostonGlobe Not that it was an original thought! Still needs more people saying it.

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      1. Howard B. Owens‏ @howardowens 21 Apr 2016
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        @sapinker @BostonGlobe regarding solar, have you taken a look at what @1366tech is developing?

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      1. mondomori‏ @mondomori 20 Apr 2016
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        @sapinker @BostonGlobe great point that, trying to frame ethical issues as scientific ones, does disservice to both domains

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      1. RuzzMaTazz‏ @RuzzMaTuzz 20 Apr 2016
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        @sapinker @BostonGlobe Agree. This is why I stopped financially supporting Greenpeace and let them know it.

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      1. Martin Nicholson‏ @Energyinacc 20 Apr 2016
        Replying to @BubbaMacLeod

        .@BubbaMacLeod @sapinker @BostonGlobe On that basis you need to add solar and wind. Neither are built in a carbon free process.

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      2. Magnus Westerstrand‏ @MagWes 19 Apr 2016
        Replying to @sapinker

        @sapinker @BostonGlobe perhaps part of the problem is that there are so many different environmental movements.

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      3. Magnus Westerstrand‏ @MagWes 19 Apr 2016
        Replying to @MagWes

        @sapinker @BostonGlobe nuclear scalability up for debate. Still many environmental movements want nuclear as part of solution

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