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[C Russell <mtbetter AT yahoo.com>]

What concerns me most about our current American
mindset something I call the eternal now.  More and
more we cannot see beyond the immediate.  And the
immediate is getting smaller and smaller.

Cathy

--- ted <music AT thenightshades.com> wrote:
>  I'm not sure that we could build the Golden Gate
> Bridge or a Hoover Dam
> these days, let alone a "safe" nuclear facility.
> Why? Rampant corruption.
> Who's going to build it? One of these defense
> contractors? Halliburton?
> 
> And more to my original point, who is going to make
> sure that the cream of
> the upcoming crop of pesticide-damaged (as we all
> are, increasingly)
> children are going to get the kind of rigorous and
> specialized education
> necessary to staff these reactors with people who
> can assure their
> continuing safety? Who's going to make sure the
> infrastructure of the US,
> now so pitifully exposed by our taste for huge long
> distance AC lines and
> oil pipelines, continues to function? And who is
> going to make sure the
> money is available for constant upkeep and any
> emergency procedures?
> 
> Don't look now, it ain't you or me.
> 
> With increasing privatization of everything, and
> everybody's hand in the
> gov't pie, as soon as it ceases to be profitable the
> whole infrastructure is
> going to shut down and or collapse, piece by piece.
> And when it does, their
> will be all the lawsuits over lost projected profits
> and the rest of it.
> 
> Here in the NW we have Hanford already poisoning the
> great Columbia, and
> very little is being done to contain it. There's
> just no money in containing
> it. It's likely to get a lot worse at any time.
> 
> Our entire approach with the long-distance AC lines
> is absurdly vulnerable-
> reviewing Schwarzenegger's latest plan to supply CA
> with power from a dozen
> or so coal plants in neighboring states, and the
> inevitable huge AC line, my
> father said to me "it's too bad the Nazis didn't set
> up their infrastructure
> like this- we could have shut them down with one
> airplane."
> 
> And let's hope when huge areas are shut down by
> attacks on our power system,
> it's the power lines they go for and not the
> reactors. It's too easy to
> imagine a 9/11 and Chernobyl all in one. People in
> glass houses shouldn't
> throw stones, and yet we continue to make enemies
> left and right every day.
> 
> Better answer- lots of small local systems,
> increased efficiency (like we
> have ANY efficiency now), establishing food sources
> (agriculture) nearby all
> urban centers, sufficient to feed them w/o depending
> on interstate trucking
> for profit (only) and long distance AC lines.
> 
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