Antinuclear

Australians overwhelmingly want renewable energy, and women are strongly against nuclear

just 19 per cent of women support nuclear power  as an option for our future generating needs and a huge 59 per cent are against….By big contrast, 53 per cent of men are in favour…………Support for the renewables is emphatic across the population. Nearly 90 per cent want wind generation to feature in our future and an extraordinary 93 per cent feel the same about solar. The number who disagree on solar is close enough to zero.

More power to the people, even if they cannot agree Ross Neilson The Daily Telegraph * December 22, 2010 AUSTRALIAN women hate nuclear power. Men don’t mind it, but women would rather use candles.

This is the startling finding of Auspoll’s latest research, a poll of 1500 Australians’ attitudes on energy generation. Australians were often divided along gender lines.

Overall, 36 per cent of Australians support uranium as an energy source and 44 per cent oppose it. Pretty even.

But digging deeper, just 19 per cent of women support it as an option for our future generating needs and a huge 59 per cent are against. By big contrast, 53 per cent of men are in favour…………Support for the renewables is emphatic across the population. Nearly 90 per cent want wind generation to feature in our future and an extraordinary 93 per cent feel the same about solar. The number who disagree on solar is close enough to zero.

December 22, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized