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This week we talked to professors Kyle Keeler and Nathaniel Otjen about the Breakthrough Institute, ecomodernism nuclear energy and AI. Does nuclear come with some downsides? (Yes)

Futher Reading:

Links between AI, tech, nuclear energy

"Continued Propaganda About AI and Nuclear Power"

"Nuclear Power Is Hard. A Climate-Minded Billionaire Wants to Make It Easier"

"Here are the Nuclear Fission Startups Backed by Big Tech"

"Meta signs 20-year deal with nuclear plant, signals AI's growing energy needs"

"Three Mile Island nuclear plant will reopen to power Microsoft data centers"

"President Donald J. Trump Deploys Advanced Nuclear Reactor Technologies for National Security"

How Nuclear Got a Positive Image

"Nuclear Injustice: Why a Nuclear Renaissance is the Same Old Colonial Story"

"A Degrowth Response to an Ecomodernist Manifesto"

"The Stories Michael Shellenberger Tells"

"The New Denial is Delay"

"'Anti-Censorship' Shellenberger Tried To Censor, Harass and Intimidate Wikipedia Editor"

Issue with nuclear power and AI

"Physicist MV Ramana on the problem with nuclear power"

"Environmental Justice in the 21st Century: Race Still Matters"

"What Environmental Justice Means in Indian Country"

"'How come I can't breathe?': Musk's data company draws a backlash in Memphis"

"AI is taking water from the desert"

Degrowth

"Degrowth can work — here's how science can help"

"A Red Deal"

"Mining for the Climate" podcast

Climate and Community Institute

Intro Topics:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/03/natal-conference-austin-texas-eugenics

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/07/cremieux-race-science-new-york-times/683474/

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jun/16/sam-bankman-fried-ftx-eugenics-scientific-racism

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35902104

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/12/magazine/12ginsburg-t.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/23/books/review/san-fransicko-michael-shellenberger.html