- The Ecologist June 1980: Tidal barrages: boon or blight? - The
Ecologist March 1980: The enviromental cost of pesticides - The
Ecologist January 1980: A proposal to save the world’s tropical
rain forests - The Ecologist December 1979: Can we control
pollution? - The Ecologist November 1979: Nuclear power is still
dependent on cheap fossil fuels The Ecologist April 1980:
Nuclear power – the grand illusion The questions over nuclear
power are still the same today as they were 30 years ago... With
memories of the oil crises of the 1970s still fresh in many
minds, the Thatcher government announced a ten year programme of
support for the nuclear power industry in 1980. The reactor
construction rate was pegged at one per year. In response, the
April/May 1980 issue of the Ecologist was dedicated to the
ensuing nuclear debate, pointing out the problems in such an
undertaking. The UK now stands in exactly the same position,
with exactly the same debate still raging. Can we learn from
Peter Bunyard’s article, written