We should have all the power we need now, but we do not. This world, all the societies of the earth, every person on the globe, should have access to all the electrical power they could possibly want. But we don’t.
Every car on the highway should have all the power required – through electricity – to travel throughout cities if not between communities outright. Every developing nation and every established nation on the planet should have all the power they need to operate desalination plants in order to have all the clean, pure, and fresh water required for all their purposes. But we don’t.
Everyone should be living in harmony with everything they could possibly need, from food and water, to cultivated land, to travel. We could have this, it would have been easy to have, we should have this, but we don’t.
Why? Well, one part of the equation is this: we have not developed nuclear power.
This is something this nation should have perfected more than 30 years ago, but we did not. We became too afraid of nuclear energy, while the French recognized the importance and benefits of nuclear power and forged ahead with development of one of the most abundant forms of energy in the world.
Here is something to think about.
The smartest people in our country are some of the lowest paid, least popular, compared to professional ball players or entertainers. The scientists and writers, who know what they are talking about, never have the ear of the public.
Many within our government and the nuclear power industry were saying, a long time ago, nuclear power was safe. They touted the benefits behind nuclear energy. They tried to tell us we needed a nuclear solution to the upcoming power problems of the future.
But we as a nation did not listen to them. Instead, we went to the movies and watched the banal propaganda put out by Hollywood. Primarily, because of one movie, the most powerful nation in the world turned away from the cleanest and most cost-effective fuel of the future – nuclear energy.
Our cars could now be traveling the highways powered by electricity. Very inexpensive nuclear energy could have developed that electricity. The nuclear power industry would have employed millions – yes millions – of people to bring this power on line for the American people as well as for the benefit of everyone else in the world.
Instead, we listened to those in Hollywood who would think they know something about everything. In actuality, all they know about is how to tell untruths. After all, that is their primary business – making the public believe something that is not true.
Now, we suffer. We still pay too much for oil and every time there is a hiccup in the industry or a hurricane threatens the Gulf, the price jumps higher.
The movie? The China Syndrome.
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© 2010 J. Clark
