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We are fast losing touch with the natural world, and an ability to survive in a state of nature.
The noise of our conveniences has perhaps made all of us confused, naive, or dull in hearing the fine voices that can lead to our survival.
Our voracious appetites for things electrical has brought us mute acceptance of the likely perils lying in the exotic chemistry of nuclear power.
Simmering away below Fredericksburg lies our own local nuclear power plant, built, like the others, close at hand, to supply this appetite for today’s “needs”.
Pressed by our demands, our power companies build costly nuclear plants in this pragmatic sense: “You asked for it.”
Some communities rise and do battle against this source of power. They usually lose as their “need” is so great. We ourselves are to blame. The power companies only try to produce.
On a map, you can draw circles with a compass or string and pen and see just what a large blast in Harrisburg could do to us only 90 miles away, to say nothing of Washington or Baltimore, or what a little leakage would do to a large source of our milk and dairy products from that good “Pennsylvania Dutch” farm country, one of the best in the East.
It is not that we lack alternative directions for power, given a little patience and a remnant of American determination. The stepchildren of this power-driven age are the sources closer to things we know well, water, wind, tidal forces and the sun.
These have been ignored and deliberately shunted aside for what is truly the exotic, the immature technology of nuclear fission.
Billions of public funds have been applied in capital to private enterprise to build these potentially dangerous plants. Many solar scientists were dismissed a few years ago who, in this space of time, and with solid funding, could have put pollution-free and clean
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