[lbo-talk] Alex Cockburn discloses who the fearmongers are

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sat May 12 11:17:08 PDT 2007


<http://www.counterpunch.com/cockburn05122007.html>

In fact, when it comes to corporate sponsorship of crackpot theories about why the world is getting warmer, the best documented conspiracy of interest is between the Greenhouser fearmongers and the nuclear industry, now largely owned by oil companies, whose prospects twenty years ago looked dark, amid headlines about the fall-out from Chernobyl, aging plants and nuclear waste dumps leaking from here to eternity. The apex Greenhouse fearmongers are well aware that the only exit from the imaginary crisis they have been sponsoring is through a door marked "nuclear power", with a servant's sidedoor labeled "clean coal".



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