Source: Australian Conservation Foundation

In a feature in the weekend magazine accompanying the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, scientist Tim Flannery [3] extolled nuclear power [4] as the solution to global warming [5]. Flannery's book, The Weather Makers, was underwritten by businessman Robert Purves [6], the president of WWF Australia [7]. Clive Hamilton, the Executive Director of the Australia Institute [8], a centre-left think tank, is critical of Flannery's reliance on individual responsibility and nuclear power as solutions to climate change. Flannery's reliance on individual responsibility "is music to the Government's ears," Hamilton writes. "Alone among Australian environmental advocates, he has declared his support for the development of a nuclear industry. The Prime Minister, John Howard [9], now regularly buttresses his nuclear push [10] by saying that even some environmentalists 'like Tim Flannery' support nuclear power," Hamilton writes. WWF Australia's CEO and former BP [11] executive, Greg Bourne [12], has also backed an expansion of uranium mining and nuclear power.