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The plan to close Britain's first commercial nuclear plant should not be misread (as it has been) as a further nail in the coffin of the nuclear industry worldwide. But there is much to be done.
Current anxieties about the prospect of climatic change, as a consequence of the carbon dioxide greenhouse or other means, raise important questions about the limitations of statistical inference.
In industrialized nations nitrogen fertilizers are known to present a health hazard, and their use may be restricted. The developing countries are a different case altogether.
