The Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, has taken advantage of her visit to the Climate Summit, COP29, to promote her plan to return and boost nuclear energy. “Currently, there is no single alternative to fossil fuels. We must have a realistic vision,” he said in the plenary session.
Meloni has put all types of energy sources in the same drawer. First he assured that “we must use all available technologies, not just renewable ones”, and then support “gas – which is a fossil energy – biofuels, hydrogen” and even “carbon capture”. Then he included “in the future, nuclear fusion.” Nuclear fusion is still a very distant horizon. What the The European Union has admitted that “clean energy” is the current formula for nuclear fission with its radioactive waste and its safety problems.
A plan to return to nuclear power plants
Italy no longer produces electricity with nuclear power plants. The country was one of the pioneers of nuclear energy, with four plants, but after the Chernobyl accident (1986) and a referendum, it banned nuclear energy and definitively dismantled all its commercial reactors in 1990. The Meloni Government is preparing specific legislation to reintroduce nuclear reactors.
“It is equally a priority that decarbonization takes into account our production systems and the sustainability of our social systems,” stated the prime minister. A phrase that fits quite well with what researchers call climate retardation, That is, not to deny the existence of climate change, but to hinder actions aimed at stopping it by focusing on the economic or social consequences of these measures.
Meloni’s words have seemed a counterpart to the intervention this Tuesday by the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, who warned: “Do not listen to those who say that the energy transition is incompatible with the well-being of the middle and working classes because those “The middle and working classes will be the ones who will suffer the most as they are in the areas most affected by climate change.”
In a similar vein to Giorgia Meloni, the words of the Russian Prime Minister, Mijail Mishustin, have been heard, who has insisted that “the transition towards low-emission energy must not compromise the development of low-income countries.” “Global warming should not be used as a pretext for unfair competition or restricting activities,” he said.
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