Beyond Nuclear International Weekly Digest, MONDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2024

Posted: 7th October 2024

A Florida nuclear plant was inundated during Hurricane Helene. Fortunately it had been closed since 2013. But will we get so lucky next time, asks Linda Pentz Gunter? And what can theater teach us about environmental issues? Duke University student Jack Sanitate argues musicals especially, can both entertain and engage audiences.

Hurricane Helen sends a warning

The ravages of Hurricane Helene sent a powerful message that the climate crisis is upon us and will continue to deliver apocalyptic devastation if we don’t now take drastic measures. As we watched one closed nuclear power plant get flooded, we are duly warned that keeping the others running - whether coastal or inland - not to mention building new ones, is a reckless and needless energy strategy that must immediately be abandoned. READ MORE

Eco-theater has much to teach us

Musicals like Hadestown and Urinetown(pictured) can communicate profound environmental loss and the horrors of over-industrialization. Redwood reminds us of the commitment made by Julia Butterfly Hill who spent 738 days in a California redwood tree to protest logging of old-growth forests. Theater may have as much to teach us as lectures and long reports but stage productions also need to be mindful of waste.READ MORE

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