I’ve always had this idea of creating a Chernobyl Nuclear Fallout Snowdome, in memory of those who sacrificed themselves to clean the immediate aftermath, and those affected by the fallout. Nuclear energy intrigued me ever since the accident, 33 years ago today, and there’s more to it than just energy and bombs – nuclear energy, to me, is symbolic to the human condition. We should also cherish it more, because it’s the only way to meet the climate goals we’ve set ourselves.
Month: April 2019
The Notre Dame and the filthy rich
Some people can never do right can they? I mean the rich, the filthy rich and the embarrasingly rich who have (shame on them!) contributed money to the rebuilding of the Notre Dame the Paris. For once they unhoarded their money (earned by cruelly exploiting the proletariat) for the greater good and promptly became the subject for the next virtual shit-storm: they didn’t save the world! Oh no! Rather than rebuilding a pithy church, I read all over social media, they should have sent the money to Africa in order to end world hunger. But should they really? Let’s think about this a little more before we ‘like’ these posts.
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