Energy is Life - Why Environmentalism Went Nuclear

Energy is Life: Why Environmentalism Went Nuclear follows Zion Lights’s personal and powerful journey: from grassroots green activism to becoming one of the UK’s leading advocates for nuclear energy. In a time of climate crisis, energy poverty and growing demand for clean power, she examines why long-established environmentalists like herself once feared nuclear energy, why many have since come to embrace it, and makes a compelling case for why nuclear energy must be part of the solution. Accessible, evidence-based, and deeply human, this book challenges common myths and invites readers to rethink what it really means to care for people and planet alike. If you believe in a greener, fairer future, this book just might change your mind – and give you hope.

About the author

Zion Lights is a science communicator whose work has unsettled orthodoxies and reshaped modern environmental debate. As founder of Emergency Reactor, the UK’s first pro-nuclear environmental campaign, she helped to shift global opinion toward a more rational and humane vision of energy and progress. A former editor and spokesperson for Extinction Rebellion, she worked to bring scientific clarity to the climate movement. Her dedication to evidence-based environmentalism earned her the Holyoake Lecture Medal from Humanists UK, recognising her as one of the leading public voices arguing for a future shaped by innovation, compassion, and human progress.

Product details

• Authors: Lights Zion
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 03.02.2026
• EAN: 9781917458450
• ISBN: 978-1-917458-45-0
• Illustrations: schwarz-weiss Illustrationen
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Non-fiction books / Non-fiction picture books > Natural science, technology; The environment, environmental science, engineering & technology, Nuclear physics, Nuclear issues, Environmentalist thought and ideology, Environmentalist, conservationist and Green organizations, Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning, Nuclear power and engineering, Green politics / ecopolitics / environmentalism, Electrical power generation and distribution industries