{"id":26139,"date":"2010-06-20T09:29:31","date_gmt":"2010-06-20T14:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=26139"},"modified":"2010-06-20T15:03:33","modified_gmt":"2010-06-20T20:03:33","slug":"one-day-in-the-nuclear-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/one-day-in-the-nuclear-age\/","title":{"rendered":"One day in the nuclear age"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m currently in Madison, WI (on the way to Cedar Rapids and Des Moines) and I saw a feature in the Sunday paper about what else could go wrong, for example, an environmental disaster in the Great Lakes. It’s good to see this kind of discussion, though on one level it’s about 50 years late, and on another, it’s never too late to stop the next problem before it happens.<\/p>\n

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It seems like the oil gusher has fallen off of page one, after an astounding run of about 60 days (minus a week at the beginning and the past week when the World Cup started to take over. From what I am reading, there is a chance — I would put it at 50\/50 — that BP will not be able to cap its well: that it will become a permanent feature on the Earth. There are currently two relief wells in progress, each of which has a chance of stopping the flow from the bottom by some time around August. (We have a good article about this in the queue by Heather Fae Speaker, one of the Book of Blue models, a talented writer who wanted to help out with some journalism — I just need to edit it, and I’ll get that to you soon.)<\/p>\n

If you’re worried what else can go wrong in the world, I suggest you focus your mind on the following: dioxin and genetically modified foods. Nuclear power is a big problem, still, though at the moment it’s fairly well contained: but we will have to come back to it. The people who are responsible for this stuff have no clue what they are doing. I know from reading their corporate memos, and I know from asking my father what he knows about nuclear power. He has spent many years of his life in the nuclear industry and he doesn’t know that much — but he trains the guys at power plants to (shall we say) ‘talk to’ the press if something goes wrong. But the limits on his technical and biological knowledge are frightening, and remind me of Tony Hayward sitting there in front of Congress saying sorry he has no clue about this, that or the other thing.<\/p>\n

Since the well blowout in April, I’ve had this song going through my mind<\/a><\/strong>. Good thing for You Tube — I haven’t seen a copy of The Dream of the Blue Turtles<\/em> since the dawn of time.<\/p>\n

\"Eric<\/p>\n

PS, if you’re in Cedar Rapids and would like to have lunch, drop me an email at dreams – at – planetwaves.net. I won’t be there long, but I thought I would drop in and put a face with the name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m currently in Madison, WI (on the way to Cedar Rapids and Des Moines) and I saw a feature in the Sunday paper about what else could go wrong, for example, an environmental disaster in the Great Lakes. It’s good to see this kind of discussion, though on one level it’s about 50 years late, … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26139"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}