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                                             November 6, 2015
                                             
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I'm giving George Monbiot credit for taking down Helen Caldicott,
but what about his own
                      
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He has an MA in Zoology from Oxford, but overall I think you'd
have to call him a general interest, broad spectrum "intellectual"
of the type that Russell Jacoby was celebrating.

On the subject at hand:

    "Monbiot once expressed deep antipathy to the nuclear
     industry. ... He finally rejected his later neutral position
     regarding nuclear power in March 2011. Although he 'still
     loathe[s] the liars who run the nuclear industry', ... Monbiot
     now advocates its use, having been convinced of its relative
     safety by what he considers the limited effects of the 2011
     Japan tsunami on nuclear reactors in the region. ..."

Monbiot's own remarks about his background are
interesting: he describes a stint in environmental      [NEXT - CREDENTIALS_PAUL_KRUGMAN]