Not a proponent of nuclear power

Donald Stewart Neille from Melville writes:

In response to the article, There’s no Planet B, week ending 3 October.

I must say that I admire people who have switched off their municipal electricity supply generated from hydrocarbons. They have stopped using their cars and bakkies, which run on hydrocarbons, they don’t even use gas lamps or candles which also rely on hydrocarbons. They have covered their roofs with solar panels, they have erected windmills and they go without when the sun doesn’t shine and the wind doesn’t blow. They don’t use the Gautrain, the Gautrain buses, the Metro buses, the Tuktuks or the taxis and they have resolved not to visit their relatives in the UK, the USA, Canada or Australia. I see many of them riding around on their horse-drawn vehicles in Melville.

I regret that I have become too accustomed to the modern world. By the way, I counted fewer than 160 heads in the front page photograph and you could fill the entire Karoo with solar cells or windmills and you could only power Cape Town and only some of the time. Incidentally, I am not a proponent of nuclear power.