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To: letters@nytimes.com Re: What scares me about nuclear power Date: Wednesday, 18 May 05 |
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Dear John (Mr
Tierney),
Thanks for your
contribution to yesterday's
NYT ('No
Nukes,' No More).
What scares me about
nuclear power is human
fallibility, stupidity and
malice, as depressingly
documented by history.
Christian
fundamentalists may refuse to
accept evolution and man's
animal origins at all, but the
rest of us are also in denial,
refusing to face up to the
fact that our entire
socio-economic order is still
deeply rooted in our animal
nature; because doing so would
undermine, not so much our
religious beliefs, but the
religiously held belief we have in our grossly
materialistic way of life and
the non-sustainable,
growth-dependent economy it
depends on.
Instead of pursuing
the dream (or rather,
nightmare) of limitless human
possibilities, as we are at
the moment, and for which we
will need limitless amounts of
energy, we should be
developing ways of life rooted
in our more enlightened, human
nature, that are in harmony
with nature and make do
with renewable sources of
energy.
Idealistic, perhaps -
but also probably the only way
to avoid extinction.
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