Nuclear Waste Could Be Buried Under Towns And Cities - But Please Leave Our National Parks Alone!1/8/2018 The British Government has backed plans to allow nuclear waste to be buried underneath our National Parks, a decision that has caused alarm amongst environmentalists.
Now I'm very much pro-nuclear power, it seems to be the only practical method of producing energy that we currently have, especially when the alternatives are considered.... such as the looney wind turbines that literally cost the earth, polluting the environment and destroying countryside and coast - whilst producing precious little energy. So, given that we need nuclear energy, we should fully support its further development. I am however very unsettled by the plan to bury nuclear waste underneath our National Parks, the only remaining areas of protected countryside in our ever more industrialised nation. Although we can safely assume that nuclear power is considerably more viable than other forms of energy production, nuclear waste remains something of a headache for the industry. With further investment in the nuclear industry - instead of pumping funds into faux-green crackpot schemes like wind farms - we might also assume that processing the by-products will become more efficient and that future nuclear energy production will result in much less waste. Meanwhile, rather than desecrate what little of our countryside remains, I would propose that we store nuclear waste underneath our towns and cities, areas already desolate when it comes to nature and wildlife. Human beings have all but eradicated everything natural from our cities by felling trees, exterminating any animal considered to be 'vermin', and concreting over habitat where once urban wildlife survived. And now we want to extend this decimation by burying our waste underneath the last remaining vestiges of wilderness, our National Parks, the final refuge of wildlife and nature in the UK. I say NO. It would be unbelievably irresponsible to dump man-made waste in the Lake District or the Peak District or any other of our National Parks. We should take responsibility for our own waste, we should make sure that our rubbish, when it cannot be re-used, is stored within our own environment. That includes nuclear waste which should be disposed of within the confines of an already industrial landscape, our inner cities and towns. If that doesn't sit well with the general public, then frankly 'tough'. We have to be responsible for all the rubbish that we produce. Disposing of any kind of waste in our protected countryside is entirely unacceptable. The sudden public awareness of our plastic-filled seas (in spite of our obvious decades-long total disregard for that environment) should have taught us something. There are consequences for dumping our waste irresponsibly. And we can no longer plead ignorance. Governments publicly lament the fate of wildlife and solemnly make promises to protect the environment. But even now in spite of their earnest, but apparently empty, words they are actually considering a plan to dig up our National Parks and turn them into what could be described as huge nuclear landfills. This is plainly wrong. Have we learnt nothing from the dying oceans? Or do we think that giving up plastic straws and re-using carrier bags is enough of a contribution to saving the planet....? We need to manage our own waste not hide it in the wilderness, the territory of other species. Until such time as we have developed waste-free nuclear energy, we should be ready and willing to bury nuclear waste under our towns and cities - and certainly not in our National Parks. It's time to stop investing millions in follies, those silly wind farms and the whims of the misinformed - and instead develop more sensible and long term energy solutions, including more advanced nuclear energy production. Perhaps then we will have no need to defend our last wilderness from the madness of politicians and the selfishness of the human race.
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