Nuclear call to combat global warming
THE world must go back to embracing nuclear power as one of its options if it is going to win the fight against global warming, economist Jeffrey Sachs warns. Professor Sachs, director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University and author of The End of Poverty, warned that global warming had the potential to undo the progress being made in the war on global poverty, making the tropics hotter and arid regions even more arid.