by Alexis Rowell from Transition Culture.
The author reviews ten arguments against nuclear energy. However, his "solutions" lack validity.
This liberal opinion source totally misses the fact that a capitalist system requires cheap energy to feed its growth imperative. Thus, to exist the system only has one alternative, and that is to use nuclear power. Alternative sources such as wind, solar, bio-mass cannot provide this. That is precisely why we will continue to see corporate sponsored media and corporate sponsored political leaders like Obama pushing nuclear power.
The same avoidance of the core problem is illustrated by the article entitled, "Unsafe at Any Screed: Can People Power Overcome Nuclear Power?". This author does go a little further by timidly making reference to a "military-industrial complex" and the need for "citizen action". As an academic employed at Prescott College, it may be that he doesn't dare go further in order to secure his employment and standing in the academic community which are closely supervised by capitalist authorities.
Capitalists are like hard core heroine addicts, they will go to their deaths (and ours) to preserve their addiction--in this case, their addiction to profits and power; and directly associated with the latter is the exploitation of working people, global domination, and wars.
There are alternatives to this system which, if we are to avoid the scourges of climate change, environmental destruction, resource depletion, and associated social disasters, we simply must create before it is too late. (See the alternatives on the right-hand side near the bottom of this blog-page.)
