Just how strictly controlled the process is becomes obvious when it emerges that the task of those 50, during two weekend meetings in June and July, will be to produce ‘a short independent guide to help every South Australian understand the recommendations raised’ by the report.ABC news dubbed this whole process the Premier’s ‘public relations exercise’, and surely they’re not wrong. The Premier is urging all South Australians to remain ‘open’ about the proposal. But are they, including the Citizens’ Jury, allowed to be open to refusal?
Tag Archives: Nuclear Weapons/Energy
The ethics of burdening future South Australians with nuclear wastes?
These questions apply everywhere.
Nuclear history – theme for January 2016
GR: People react slowly or not at all to the chronic action of toxic pollutants that escape our control or, more often, are simply cast away. It’s easy for the polluters to deny the danger. One day, there will be statistics to show how Earth’s plants and animals were harmed and what this did to their health and life span. Will people say, “Why didn’t someone do something?”
A nuclear free Australia : White Australia must join Black Australia in fighting for this – theme for Dec 15
Insightful perspective and comments.
Nuclear power as panacea for climate change? Experts divided
“As delegates at a Paris summit haggle over how to curb global warming, the role of nuclear energy in limiting climate-changing emissions is the subject of fierce debate between champions and critics of atomic power.” phys.org
GR: Nuclear energy is not the answer. It’s support is merely an attempt by large investors to retain control over our energy sources.
Are mini-nuclear reactors the answer to the climate change crisis?
“Mini nuclear power plants could be trucked into a town near you to provide your hot water, or shipped to any country that wants to plug them into their electricity grid from the dock. That is the aim of those developing “small modular reactors” and, from the US to China to Poland, they want the UK to be at the centre of the nascent industry. The UK government says it is “fully enthused” about the technology.”
“With UN climate change summit in Paris imminent, the question of how to keep the lights on affordably, while cutting emissions, is pressing.” www.theguardian.com
GR: Nuclear energy is dangerous and it produces wastes that remain deadly for tens of thousands of years. This article is propaganda coming from investors interests who want to centralize energy production and keep distributed systems such as “rooftop solar” out of the hands of consumers. You can’t get wealthy with a resource that is free and unlimited.
Finland’s nuclear waste burial plan
As in all things we do, we humans have a very shortsighted view of the future. We have 5-year plans, we discuss what might happen by the end of the century, and all the while, we are destroying species and ecosystems that took thousands of years to develop. Nuclear wastes will be with us for tens or hundreds of thousands of years. Don’t we expect to be around still? Do we expect that within a few hundred years we will have found the means to destroy our wastes? Scientists are warning that our civilization may not survive human-caused global warming and our planet-wide ecocide. Our descendants, living in collapsing buildings and searching the ruins for anything edible, do not need radiation sickness to contend with as well.
Nature News Digests
President Obama failed his commitment to reducing nuclear weapons
The power to annihilate the planet grows more frightening as forests, fertile soil, fresh water, and clean air become scarce. As great nations weaken and face final dissolution, the risk of a doomsday act of desperation or vengeance will become a hovering dark shroud over the Earth.