It would be a mistake to read too much into any online opinion poll, let alone one conducted by the ABC.
However, the poll on nuclear power on Monday's Q&A should to be allowed to disappear into the dark hole of spent social media posts, where the show's producers would probably happily put the results to rest.
A more respectable survey by Compass Polling conducted last month confirms that opposition to nuclear power is an obsession of the shrinking few.When Australia's first nuclear generator begins operation, as it inevitably will, Anthony Albanese and Scott Morrison may be recognised as the prime ministers who did the most to change the public's opinion.Support for nuclear power rose overnight as Australians recognised the synergy of a defence and civil nuclear industry working together.
Yet by changing the policy debate about zero emissions from whether we should do it to how, an unlikely partnership has emerged between conservatives and a growing number of those on the Left who think that tackling climate change is too important to leave any option off the table.An inter-generational war has erupted in the global environmental movement where a new generation of activists challenge their elders’ Cold War hangups toward nuclear power.
Aanstoot, who rose to prominence in the School Strikes for Climate Change, has become the face of a"Dear Greenpeace" campaign designed"to pull Greenpeace into the 21st century". Labor’s opposition to nuclear originated half a century ago in a decade when the intelligentsia became gripped by the twin fears of diminishing oil supplies and the Cold War threat of nuclear devastation.
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