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Showing posts with label radio-active. Show all posts
Showing posts with label radio-active. Show all posts

Friday, 11 May 2012

Alternatives



The Chinese believe that if the weather is very bad it is because of bad government. We have all noticed the wild fluctuations in our weather recently, heatwaves in March and snow in May. This changing of the climate we are told by scientists is because of global warming and I have no reason to doubt that this is so. Yet time and again the summits convened to try to deal with this crisis fail to come up with any concrete proposals. Why? Because of the vested interests of the elite in the global oil economy. We all know that oil is a resource that is all but exhausted. Yet we continue to rely on oil to maintain the illusion of progress. Oil fuels our vast transport systems and powers our electricity generators.
 Meanwhile, the government assures us that the best viable alternative is nuclear power. Yet this technology would leave us with a far worse pollution problem than oil and one that will last much much longer. If in years to come my great great grand children where to dig up my skeleton and scan it with their Geiger counters they would still find my bones were radio-active from the nuclear accident at Chernobyl. Every human on the planet has some of the fallout from that calamity in their body and now Fukashima is doing the same. You will notice how Fukashima has dropped out of the news even though that disaster is set to be even more deadly than Chernobyl. It has directly impacted the lives of over one million people already and now the scientists are saying there is worse to come!