what corporations think about safety, regardless of what they make. How about killing all the oxygen out of the air in city and suffocating every man, woman, child, and animal? Wasn't that Dow Chemical? Wasn't that in the Sudan? It happened so long ago, my brain rattles trying to remember the exact place. The atrocities are so many.
Yes, you only have to go South in our own country to see what fossil fuel production can do to residents. Of course, it's only POC or extremely poor people who live in those areas, so they don't count generally. "They" (the corporations) killed what I used to refer to as "my Gulf" because for decades I'd wanted to retire in Galveston. No more... not after the oil blowout, and the even worse disaster that the Corexit brought.
No matter what the material... fossil fuels, a damnable piece of wood, nuclear, etc., there are going to be two men somewhere who hate each other enough and for whom that hate is all that matters... such that they would damn the whole area around them to every living hell. All the worse when those two men command armies. Today, we not only have men who command armies, but they command other country's armies through "proxies."
I would love it if we could find a way to magically make a switch to all renewable energies... not only for the Mother; but for my own selfish ideological reasons. But that's not going to happen until we start making it happen. And unfortunately for us, and for the citizens of the world for whom their own hope is peace, our words are lost in the dizzying array of dollar signs floating around the numbers where weapons of ALL kinds are concerned.
But yes, I AM concerned about nuclear safety. I'm not against nuclear energy. But I'm also for holding those corporations, and their "subcontractors" to high standards for the safety of everyone. And yes... that SHOULD have been the case for fossil fuels from the very start. It took many of us a long time to catch up to the damage that was being done by those corporations. Some of us knew in the 60's. Some knew even before that. Most of us were laughed at or worse... and then ignored. We're still being ignored. Should we just repeat the cycle with nuclear in a brand new country to have it? Or should we make sure "they" get it right?
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