This morning, I sent this to our local paper here in Baton Rouge, Louisiana,
deep in the Bible Belt. The usual permission to borrow for your own LTE is
given.
Hajja Romi
Editor, the Advocate,
The disaster which happened in Japan this past week--and it still unfolding--is
what those of us who have opposed nuclear power have feared all along.
Christians and people of good conscience all over the world are sending
disaster relief to the victims of earthquake, tsunami and nuclear power plant
destruction.
Earthquakes and tsunamis are beyond the power of Man to control, but
construction of nuclear power plants is not. To place these highly risky
structures in a seismically active island, let alone line them up in a row near
known a earthquake fault, is foolish, to say the least.
I wish I could tell our senators and congressman: "If you ever voted a dime
for nuclear power, you need to look at yourself in the mirror some morning and
ask yourself, 'What was I thinking?'"
In the country that now is facing a second nuclear holocaust, probably worse
than the first, honorable men were at one time expected to fall on their swords
when they made a mistake. We all have seen that even women, like Madama
Butterfly, did that, even when their actions didn't result in the potential
loss of life of a sizable fraction of the population.
It would be asking too much of politicians in this country to do likewise, but
we can and should expect that they put an end to this madness using dangerous
substances by the ton to generate power.
Mankind managed for tens of thousands of years to use the sun and wind for
power. What's so bad about that?
As Shakespeare once so wisely observed, "Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot
that it do singe yourself."
Sincerely,
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