Jon Queally is managing editor of Common Dreams.
Climate campaigners scoffed Saturday at a 22-nation pledge to triple nuclear power capacity by mid-century as a way to ward off the increasing damage of warming temperatures, with opponents calling it a costly and 'dangerous' distraction from the urgent need for a fossil fuel phaseout alongside a rapid increase in more affordable and scaleable renewable sources such as wind and solar.
climate envoy John Kerry said that while he agrees nuclear will be a 'sweeping alternative to every other energy source,' but claimed that 'science and the reality of facts' shows the world cannot 'get to net-zero by 2050 with some nuclear.
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