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by damiankennedy
661 days ago
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As a New Zealander born in the 70s I very much remember Greenpeace protesting against the testing of the nuclear weapons, the snap election in 1984, the 1985 bombing of the Rainbow Warrior and then becoming nuclear free in 1987. Nuclear power was never going to get of the ground in that environment. In NZ, being nuclear free is like the 2nd amendment in the US. |
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In the 1970s the BBC news programmes gave huge amounts of air time to Greenpeace and CND. Greenham Common and CND being given the most coverage.
When the only source of information is a daily newspaper, or nightly news programmes, a huge number of people can be influenced by whatever a channel like the BBC was broadcasting.
Unlike today where you can read wikipedia (!) or switch to one of a hundred other channels and simply just not watch the news.
TV set the agenda back then, and the course of nuclear sentiment for a few decades.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-nuclear_movement_in_the_U...