a discussion with the anti-nuclear activist and founder of Rock the Reactors in Norwalk, Connecticut
interview by OLIVIER ZAHM
OLIVIER ZAHM — Is your involvement in the environmental movement political?
REMY CHEVALIER — It’s become political.
OLIVIER ZAHM — Do you think that public consciousness can evolve enough to actually be a factor in solving the nuclear problem?
REMY CHEVALIER — You can get used to having a time bomb in the back room. It doesn’t go off, so you forget about it.
OLIVIER ZAHM — In the ’70s there were anti-nuclear positions expressed in music, in culture, in artwork, in the avant-garde, in everything. Now when you talk with young people about the issue, they don’t seem to care. How do you explain this?
REMY CHEVALIER — There are two very simple reasons. The first is that the environmental movement, in the ’70s, actually grew out of the…