Why should you fear the
neighbor’s dog when there is a tiger in your back yard?
I don’t mean this to be more
doom and gloom but… what the hell; we
love doom and gloom. The ratings tell
us that the movies with extreme violence, graphic bloodshed, rape, carnage and
chaos are the movies people tend to pay to see.
Global warming is a
fact. Ninety-three percent of all
environmental scientists agree (the other seven percent have a religious or
corporate agenda.) We are experiencing
the changes at this time. Weather
patterns are disrupted as oceans warm and the ecology adjusts. But, at sometime in the distant future
(perhaps decades) the change will have completed and the earth will stabilize
with a new ecosystems.
But, there is a more pressing
danger:
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| NUCLEAR PLANTS IN THE US |
Nuclear plants exist across
our country. These plants were designed
to operate for thirty years. Many are
operating on an extension. The nuclear
wastes produced by these plants are extremely hazardous and will remain so for
thousands of years. The plants
themselves have to be sealed after their life span; and the physical plants and
the land they occupy will be uninhabitable for thousands of years.
Unbeknownst to the public,
nuclear waste from operating nuclear plants are being constantly transported on
our highways and railroads to storage facilities. These storage facilities will have to
maintain these materials for thousands of years – what could possibly go
wrong?
We have had a number of
nuclear emergencies: the two most noteworthy are Chernobyl
An there is the human cost:
And Fukushima.
The radioactive waste water
from the Fukushima plant is, at this time,
draining into the Pacific Ocean. The Japanese government claims that the
volume of radioactive water to the vast Pacific Ocean
will result in no discernible danger to the ecosystem.
Our government’s energy plan
includes building more nuclear energy plants and building new nuclear weapons
to replace our aging stockpile. We are
looking at short term, government subsidized, energy programs with long term
pollution and disaster potential.
But again: what could
possibly go wrong?
the Ol’Buzzard
