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>If
such a great number of you wish for the demise of the nuclear industry, leave
the main breaker off.
Well
put, Floyd. I really don't know how these folks manage these ethical conflicts.
Sitting in their air-conditioned offices, typing out anti-nuclear treatises on
their computers and faxing them to Washington, DC, where they will be flying the
next day, after they drive their SUVs to the airport. They hate the power
companies and the big oil companies, but demand the right to use their products
to try to drive them out of business. I agree with you that I could listen
harder to their arguments if they had the power of their own convictions. Some
activists (e.g. Mother Teresa) do gain people's respect of their opinions in
this way. Others, like the Greens in Germany, will happily be found out
eventually for what they really are.
Your
comments also remind me of an interesting idea someone once pushed of "yes, in
YOUR backyard". A good way to help people take responsibility for their use of
energy is to halt garbage pickup entirely, and force people to bury their own
waste materials on their own property. With your electric bill every month would
come a little packet of fly ash that you have to bury in *your* back yard. With
a dozen eggs would come a packet of poultry by-products (i.e. pieces parts), and
so on ("let's go easy on the hamburger this month,
ewwwww...").
Michael G. Stabin, PhD, CHP
Assistant Professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences Vanderbilt University 1161 21st Avenue South Nashville, TN 37232-2675 Phone (615) 322-3190 Fax (615) 322-3764 e-mail michael.g.stabin@vanderbilt.edu |