Comments on: A nuclear error http://www.globaldashboard.org/2008/06/20/a-nuclear-error/ Global risks and how to respond to them, edited by Alex Evans and David Steven Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:49:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Harry Springer http://www.globaldashboard.org/2008/06/20/a-nuclear-error/comment-page-1/#comment-1396 Harry Springer Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:17:39 +0000 http://www.globaldashboard.org/?p=1033#comment-1396 Having been here for a while, I remember the disappointed talk when Robert Boyle quit Riverkeeper over the William Wegner hiring incident. People hereabouts felt Riverkeeper had been commandeered by amoral newbies, and sent down a bad road. The consensus was, the organization had lost all credibility as a pro-environmental force, by hiring a convicted bird smuggler as a "technical advisor". What kind of advice could such a miscreant offer? Crime how-to tips? It was a year after Boyle left, that they began their failed anti nuclear pogrom. Mr. Wegner is still on salary, so make your own judgements. Pete Seeger loves his causes, his alternative vision of the possible, and was far along to accepting Indian Point as a help, when the Bronxville Ladies Club sensed heresy in the wings, and isolated the poor guy. As natural as rainwater, as rustic as a log cabin. The Hudson Valley's own pristine future-bringer. Indian Point Maybe Pete can write a song..... Having been here for a while, I remember the disappointed talk when Robert Boyle quit Riverkeeper over the William Wegner hiring incident.

People hereabouts felt Riverkeeper had been commandeered by amoral newbies, and sent down a bad road. The consensus was, the organization had lost all credibility as a pro-environmental force, by hiring a convicted bird smuggler as a “technical advisor”. What kind of advice could such a miscreant offer? Crime how-to tips? It was a year after Boyle left, that they began their failed anti nuclear pogrom.

Mr. Wegner is still on salary, so make your own judgements.

Pete Seeger loves his causes, his alternative vision of the possible, and was far along to accepting Indian Point as a help, when the Bronxville Ladies Club sensed heresy in the wings, and isolated the poor guy.

As natural as rainwater, as rustic as a log cabin. The Hudson Valley’s own pristine future-bringer. Indian Point

Maybe Pete can write a song…..

]]> By: Artis Mayo http://www.globaldashboard.org/2008/06/20/a-nuclear-error/comment-page-1/#comment-1395 Artis Mayo Mon, 23 Jun 2008 11:22:53 +0000 http://www.globaldashboard.org/?p=1033#comment-1395 We have been uniquely privileged here in The Hudson Valley, to have both Pete Seeger's groundbreaking campaign..... (and its results)... AND a non-polluting means to attain full modernism, without having to export our environmental sins to some unlucky downscale area, an area we can conveniently forget, while riding Metro North up from SoHo, enjoying pristine sunsets unsullied by smoke, haze, and carcinogenic dioxin compounds. (We make our own clean power locally). It makes it difficult to join whole-heartedly with mainstream progressive issue followers in knee jerk nuke bashing, because without our "designer nuke", we would have not so beautiful a valley, as the one we are used to. So it requires pluck. It requires an ability to think for oneself, to stand apart from celebrity-led lemming societies, and to openly cherish that which makes life around here worth living. Among those things, the presence of Indian Point is the largest single beautification engine, orders of magnitude more important than any other factor (now that Pete & Riverkeeper have chased away the dye factories). Now, if we can just keep the Hudson from becoming a Miami-beach-type wall of gated condos from Troy to Staten Island, we can say we've done some good, these 60 years or so. It may already be too late, though. As far as .00012 of a millileter of SR90 found at the bottom of a 250 deep borehole, I would not worry, unless I were mining in the same space... and all local mining ceased around the time of the Garfield administration. As far as the environmental morality of using self-warming minerals to power our homes (via Indian Point), consider the uranium heating in the Earth's core, that causes all geothermal processes, and sustains life uniquely on this one single planet, by virtue of driving the core spin that induces our life-saving terrestrial magnetic field, thus deflecting some really nasty cosmic influx from frying us alive, as we ride Metro North to Cold Spring. What's good for Gaia, ought to be permitted to her offspring, wouldn't you say? We have been uniquely privileged here in The Hudson Valley, to have both Pete Seeger’s groundbreaking campaign….. (and its results)… AND a non-polluting means to attain full modernism, without having to export our environmental sins to some unlucky downscale area, an area we can conveniently forget, while riding Metro North up from SoHo, enjoying pristine sunsets unsullied by smoke, haze, and carcinogenic dioxin compounds. (We make our own clean power locally).

It makes it difficult to join whole-heartedly with mainstream progressive issue followers in knee jerk nuke bashing, because without our “designer nuke”, we would have not so beautiful a valley, as the one we are used to.

So it requires pluck. It requires an ability to think for oneself, to stand apart from celebrity-led lemming societies, and to openly cherish that which makes life around here worth living. Among those things, the presence of Indian Point is the largest single beautification engine, orders of magnitude more important than any other factor (now that Pete & Riverkeeper have chased away the dye factories).

Now, if we can just keep the Hudson from becoming a Miami-beach-type wall of gated condos from Troy to Staten Island, we can say we’ve done some good, these 60 years or so. It may already be too late, though.

As far as .00012 of a millileter of SR90 found at the bottom of a 250 deep borehole, I would not worry, unless I were mining in the same space… and all local mining ceased around the time of the Garfield administration.

As far as the environmental morality of using self-warming minerals to power our homes (via Indian Point), consider the uranium heating in the Earth’s core, that causes all geothermal processes, and sustains life uniquely on this one single planet, by virtue of driving the core spin that induces our life-saving terrestrial magnetic field, thus deflecting some really nasty cosmic influx from frying us alive, as we ride Metro North to Cold Spring.

What’s good for Gaia, ought to be permitted to her offspring, wouldn’t you say?

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