Word: environmentalists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Terkel summed up this feeling in his denunciation of the "Republocrat" party he sees dominating contemporary politics. Barry Commoner, the environmentalist-turned-political-activist who received the near unanimous endorsement of the delgates as presidential candidate, put it more plainly when he accepted his nomination: "We are the people who are going to help our fellow Americans smile when they go into the voting booth, instead of holding their nose...
Commoner himself only recently came on to the political scene, though he has been an activist throughout his career. He is probably best known as an environmentalist and energy expert, through the several bestsellers he has authored: "The Closing Circle," "The Poverty of Power," and his most recent book, "The Politics of Energy...
Even the strongest advocates of nuclear power have warned for years that it would take only one accident to cripple the U.S. atomic energy program. Just hours after that pump failed at Three Mile Island, the chief environmentalist for a New England utility predicted: "This is the end of nuclear power. From now on in, it's going to be coal city...
...nukes" now refers to what are in contrast the relatively minor dangers of nuclear power plants which offer environmentalist groups easy targets to attack corporate villains such as public utilities. There are undoubted hazards in nuclear power, especially on the question of the disposal of nuclear wastes, but no serious physicist with whom I have discussed the issue (I spent several weeks at Oak Ridge in making myself less of an amateur on this issue) believes that even the most serious damage that, for example, might have resulted at Three Mile Island would be a calamity comparable to a major...