Re: last week talked about oil shale; news release that talks about Canada oil sand

From: Rolf Martens (rolf.martens_at_mailbox.swipnet.se)
Date: 09/15/04 

Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 11:33:14 +0200

In article <41473589.426852510@news.ucalgary.ca>, kmuldrezw@ucalgazry.ca
says...
>
>
>jmfbahciv@aol.com wrote:
>
>>In article <4145f21f.344046509@news.ucalgary.ca>,
>> kmuldrezw@ucalgazry.ca (Ken Muldrew) wrote:
>>>Rolf Martens <rolf.martens@mailbox.swipnet.se> wrote:
>>>
>>>>And yes, why not a nuke plant for steam generation,
>>>>to make it even cheaper? I've never heard of this
>>>>before, but it sound good.
>>>
>>>People are scared of them; no other reason.
>>
>>I don't think they are. The dementia has gone
>>beyond that. Protesting power plant building has
>>become a religion.
>
>Religion is derived from a fear of the unknown, so your analogy is
>fine but fear is an integral part of it.
>
>Ken Muldrew
>kmuldrezw@ucalgazry.ca
>(remove all letters after y in the alphabet)

If some people rally fear nuclear energy, then because
of the massive media anti-nuclear-energy scare campaign,
coupled also with certain arch-reactionary manipulations.

Here in Sweden for instance, an "argumentation" with
"people's fear" was tried too. But obviously, it did
not succeed. In the end, the politicians were "forced to"
set up a "referendum" on nuclear power, in 1980. And
they "had to" put "the choice" to people only of "NO",
"NO" or "NO". (Sounds fantastic, but it's true.) This
showed too that in reality, they themselves very well
knew that a majority was *not* against nuclear energy,
quite on the contrary.

In the USA there was an "opinion poll" on nuclear energy
in 1996. The result was 66% in favour, 34% against. (Probably,
the "pro" majority in reality was even bigger.) But one
interesting thing in this context is, that most of those
asked *thought* that there was "a majority against"
nuclear energy.

All in all, that "fear on the part of ordinary people"
is another piece of reactionary bull***. In reality,
it's *the establishment* that hates nuclear energy.
Because it's "much too modern" for their outdated
social "order".

Rolf M.
Malmö, Sweden

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