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Climate Change - Nuclear not the answer The future of the planet’s climate, the lives and livelihoods of billions of people depend on the energy generation choices being made today. We have the opportunity to stabilise climate change, end the nuclear nightmare and tackle the inequity of fuel poverty afflicting one in three people on the planet. Two billion people currently live without reliable access to life enhancing energy services like light and heat. For the planet and its people we must all make the right choice. We must choose efficient and safe renewable energy sources over dirty and dangerous nuclear power. Introduction The potential of renewable energy is vast and far greater than that of nuclear power or climate changing fossil 1 fuels. With today’s technology we can generate almost six times the current global energy demand. Why listen to the nuclear industry, which time and time again has offered us false promises and lies? Why let it drag us backwards to the past and believe that nuclear power is needed to tackle climate change when we can look to the future, a clean future based on renewable energy sources; a future free of more radioactive waste and the nuclear proliferation nightmare that accompanies nuclear power? The choice is not just about how to replace existing power plants. One third of the world’s population, some two billion people have no reliable access to energy supplies, this inequity cannot be relieved by the 1950s nuclear nightmare, but only by the efficient use of diverse and decentralised renewable energy systems. The promotion of nuclear power as the answer to climate change is a dangerous diversion from the real solutions: a massive uptake of renewable energy and the adoption of energy efficiency are the only effective ways to combat climate chan