Felt a few drops, seen a bit of a rainbow
and met Los Alamos refugees.
11,000 people are under mandatory evacuation orders as the raging fire rapidly advances dangerously close towards the birthplace of nuclear power and the atom bomb, LANL in Los Alamos. 10,000 barrels, some think 30,000 barrels, of nuclear waste, to be transported for permanent storage (an asinine idea we protested in the eighties, but predictably lost to insanity) sit on LANL land largely unprotected. Anguish over the potential for radio active material to be released reached a fevered pitch in some. Personally I doubt the fire will reach those barrels having glimpsed a peak at the lay of the barren land. But I did protest plans to further proliferate nuclear power and instead promoted the ideas of serious green energy development. I applaud Germany for their commitment to shut down all nuclear reactors by 2022. It can not come soon enough for the whole of the world. If you are so inclined you can make your voice heard here.
Meanwhile some take a very philosophical stance towards the fires, and say that they are inevitable, are even part of the cycles of nature. Some include the warming trend of the earth in this equation and claim that global warming is not man made, but again an inevitable part of nature's cycles. Those guys, and yes, they were guys that I talked to, seem to take a rather depressed, sarcastic, even sardonic stance on humanity's ability to survive on earth. Seems to me that a feeling of helplessness is rampant and masked with nonchalant non-caring and disengagement from society and politics. To those activism seems to have lost it's appeal. What's the good, nothing changes anyway. This shutting down of body, mind and heart is worrisome and does not bear well for a better future. Often I am afraid it is supported by a descend in to addiction of one form or another. Activism, picking our battles, and doing what we can do, seems to be the antidote.
What have you done to make the world a better place?
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