A Modest Proposal
Poet Danny Chivers' casts a satirical eye over nuclear power's role in combating climate change.
As the climate crisis hots up, the world is having to face up to some difficult choices about how we power our high-tec, modern lives. Low-carbon technologies are urgently needed – and the nuclear industry believes it has the answer. But what are the real costs of nuclear energy? In a specially-composed poem performed against the backdrop of the Dungeness nuclear site in Kent, Danny Chivers ponders the issues in a modern take on Jonathan Swift's famous 18th century satire
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