Rav Casley Gera

Numbers are flying, people are shouting, and protestors are waving banners. Nuclear is back on the agenda, and it isn’t a pretty sight. Some environmentalists are furious, calling the Government’s endorsement of a new generation of nuclear power stations a betrayal, and those who see nuclear as necessary seeing the others as misguided and deluded. The anti-nuclear lobby squeal repeatedly about the danger, about Chernobyl, about Five Mile Island, and about the threat of waste. Those in favour of new builds repeat, endlessly, that without nuclear we cannot meet our future energy needs. Repeat ad infinitum. [Read more →]

You’ll have read, no doubt, that financier Warren Buffet, the world’s second-richest man, is to donate most of his fortune to the charitable foundation founded by Bill Gates, the world’s richest. Various figures (mostly around $31bn) have been attached to the deal, all of which estimate that it will make The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation a bigger sponsor of health and education work in Africa and elsewhere in the global South than UNESCO. [Read more →]