The public interventions of the former president of the Spanish government Felipe González usually provoke controversy. The words of the former general secretary of the PSOE in one of the round tables of the II Conference on Forest Fires and Natural Risks, in Seville, on Monday, January 29, have caused a new wave of comments for and against in the media. in general and social networks on the internet in particular.
González's dissertation, available on YouTube, began with references to climate change and forest fires (the main topic of the conference) but quickly diverted towards nuclear energy and renewable energies.
Transcription of the part of Felipe González's intervention in the forum in which he explicitly refers to CO₂ emissions, nuclear energy and renewable energies:
(Fragment of the recording available on YouTube, starting at point 2:54:35)
"When pollution is measured in terms of CO₂ from the different actors that exist, it turns out that the least polluting is nuclear. One is scared to think that there is an enormous current of opinion against nuclear energy, and that enormous current of opinion, Above all, it is based on the fact that we do not know what to do with nuclear waste. And is he right? Yes. But, what are we going to do with the waste from photovoltaic plants... or with the waste from wind turbines? What are we going to do? to do? Has anyone thought about it?"
"When the useful life of a photovoltaic plant ends, which has occupied an enormous amount of land, whatever it may be, which has put an end to agriculture, we do not even plan who has the responsibility of disassembling it and how the metals are recycled, we do not I'm already saying how to pay for the mining of these essential metals, which naturally is fundamentally based on slave labor, but... what is done with those metals? They are not recyclable, recyclable for... In most cases for never". But of course, they are clean energies. Because? Because someone sacramented that they are clean. Clean, clean, clean, there is none."
"I remember the famous phrase about the Sun Tax. Hey, look at the Sun Tax, the only one that is not paid when you lie on the beach belly up and the sun shines on you. Or when you are on the terrace, that some people It does it, on the terrace of a flat or on a roof and it gives you the Sun. Of course, you can't put a tax on sunbathing belly up on the beach, but if it wants to transform that into energy (I'm not saying it has whether there are taxes or not, I'm not going to get into that debate) there is a transformation effort that has a huge number of components... that is not free, that no one gives it to you. Therefore, we are facing a tremendous problem complex..."
