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In this work, the Hoyles express many of the ideas which have come to be associated with the "ecomodernist" (or, better, eco-realist) position. They look at the impacts on Man and the natural world of having energy and the technology that goes with it, and of not having it ; at the various ways that energy can be supplied, and the human and environmental costs of each. Along the way, they illustrate graphically the way in which anti-nuclear campaigners misrepresent facts and construct narratives completely unconnected to fact, in the interest of creating a climate of unfounded pessimism (and outright terror) about energy from fission, and one of unfounded optimism about other energy sources. This includes making useful contrasts between real disasters, such as the Flixborough chemical plant explosion or the Rapid City dam collapse, and suppositious ones such as the Enrico Fermi 1 and Three Mile Island 2 nuclear meltdowns. (Neither the Bhopal nor Chernobyl disasters had occurred at the time of writing.)
Sir Fred, of course, has to take us into the by-ways of science, in this case Professor Gold's theory of the non-biological origin of the fossil methane sold under the name of "natural gas" - an interesting idea, but unlikely to be correct, given the oxidizing conditions in the interior of the Earth.
All in all, a nice little reality check in the space of 16 short chapters and fewer than 90 pages of text, all at an easily-understood level which typifies the way the scientist ought to write for the layman.
