First there were the revolutions in Egypt and Libya, then the middle east, but soon the attention swapped to the huge and terrible events in Japan, the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear threat.
If there ever was a time to move people's minds away from Nuclear, with it's radiation, mutating and cancer-causing waste, this is it. Greenpeace was started with an action to investigate and stop nuclear tests in the northern Alaskan waters once the effects on migrating Whales were known.
Now the whole world watches as winds carry radiation round the globe....all for energy which could be harnessed from the sun, as in Concentrated Solar Power (see desertec.org) or solar panels, wind and wave energy.
Greenpeace does not have a current anti-nuclear campaign, so please do what you can to raise your voice with organisations which do - No2Nuclear and CND.
We also know that generating electricity is a by-product of producing irradiated Uranium for bomb-making - not the other way round.....and that nuclear power has cost billions, will cost billions and make a few people rich...the rest, suffering the effects of Nuclear power as it turns our water into a cancer-causing liquid. Although this sounded far-fetched to me when I discovered it, I did check it out with an eminent Nuclear Scientist, who confirmed that yes, even though the irratiated rods were immerssed in water (for 20 years), and then buried, the radioactivity would 'migrate' through any storage into the surrounding rocks (like heat from a cup of tea escapes through the cup) and then be picked up by rainwater tickling through the rocks. This rainwater would pick up the radioacctivity and take it to the streams, rivers and seas, there to be dropped on the land and enter our water supply.
I didn't realise that this might happen in my lifetime - as is happening now in Japan.
It is time to stop the nuclear threat for once and for all. Let's support those now trying to do just that.
Do hope to see you at an event or meeting soon,
Roisin
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