Harvey's Comment in LA Times:
These Olympics must also be 100% solar/wind/geothermal powered & the Diablo Canyon reactors must be shut before they begin.
the Games are threatened by potential catastrophe from the continued operation of these two uninsured, obsolete nukes surrounded at Avila Beach by earthquake faults capable of blanketing the region with lethal Chernobyl-scale radioactive clouds.
debate still rages over how much radiation Fukushima poured into Tokyo in 2011-21; we must not allow that possibility for Los Angeles in 2028 & beyond.
we have just suffered horrific fires caused at least in part by a faulty central-powered utility system that must be replaced by micro-grid based renewables. rooftop solar is the answer for Los Angeles to have a cheap, safe, clean power system, and it must happen prior to the Olympics.
Renewables are cheaper, safer, cleaner, more reliable, more job producing and fast enough to install to make these Olympics 100% green powered.
It will for certain be done in Brisbane 2032; it must happen first in LA 2028.
https://www.laprogressive.com/climate-change/olympics-solar-powered
A blueprint was laid out in 2018 which Newsom signed (as Lieutenant Governor), as did the legislature, utilities, regulators, courts, unions, local governments, enviro groups, then-governor Brown & more. that agreement must now be honored, & California must complete its transition to 100% renewables.
it is costing $11 billion in over-market charges to keep Diablo operating to the detriment of us all. Diablo is the reason our electric rates are the highest in the continental US. shut Diablo, finish switching to renewables, drop our rates.
the 2028 Olympics must embody a green-powered celebration of how the human species survives going forward, and how California can fulfill its destiny as a sane, sustainable society.
Harvey's Comment In The New York Times:
harvey wasserman | LA
the emphasis on climate here rightly assesses eco-activism. trump's terrifying pro-fossil/nuke insanity means death to us all.
climate justice/survival demands 100% conversion to a solar/wind/geothermal/post-lithium Solartopia.
Democrats' support is suicidal for failed, uninsurable atomic power reactors whose heat, carbon & radioactive waste also promote nuke war (see reactors in ukraine/kursk). the nuke downfall includes:
1. zero large reactors being built in the US; the 3 opened since 1996 were hugely late, billions beyond budget, costing far more/kwh than renewables. no one not seeking Bombs will rationally undertake a new big nuke;
2. Small Modular Reactors (Silly Mythological Rip-offs) are already far beyond renewables in cost & build time;
3. reviving old nukes is beyond absurd;
4. old reactors are STILL uninsured & soaring in cost. meanwhile solar panels, on/off-shore wind, geothermal, efficiency continue to soar in popularity. worldwide renewables easily beat nukes or coal in cost/kwh & gross production....& growing moreso.
Yet Gavin Newsom has betrayed the 2018 agreement he signed to phase out the insanely dangerous/hyper-expensive reactors at Diablo Canyon. as proved by recent utility-sparked fires,
Los Angeles cannot be protected from a radioactive cloud. & Whitmer wastes billions on reviving Palisades' nuke, which threatens the entire Great Lakes. etc.
to win going forward, the Democrats must transcend fossil/nukes & support 100% renewables. NOW!!