To July 28 – the climate-nuclear news this week – Australia
On CLIMATE the situation is eerie. Technogeeks are exploring geoengineering ways to cool the planet. Some journalists – New York’s David Wallace Wells, Slate’s Tommy Lynch, predict an uninhabitable Earth, and warn that we are not alarmed enough.
The general media inform us of greatly increased wildfires, (Europe), (USA), floods, (India)(Germany), droughts, (USA), (Italy) . These news items whisk away under the relentless hurricane news of celebrities, sport, and Trump’s latest absurdities.
On NUCLEAR it would seem few immediate events are happening. However,important issues are being explored. Investigative journalism lives!
- Sick nuclear workers die as USA Labor Department delays compensation as long as possible.
- Nuclear danger as Trump government guts science removes Department of Energy’s skilled personnel
- and this beautifully written story on the continuing danger of the underground fire and nuclear waste at St Louis, Missouri.
AUSTRALIA
Peter Dutton’s home affairs ministry will investigate itself for corruption.
NUCLEAR. Pentagon says North Korea capable of nuclear missile strike on Australia, USA in 2018.
Death of famed and much-loved Aboriginal activist Yami Lester. Yami Lester is mourned: his daughters carry on the anti nuclear fight.
Complaints lodged with National Radioactive Management Taskforce regarding the undemocratic nature of the radioactive waste dump process.
Quietly, nuclear -powered USS Ronald Reagan to Brisbane to join massive Talisman military exercise.
World Vision leader scathing about Defence Industry Minister Christopher Pyne’s plan for Australia to export weapons.
Western Australia: Aboriginal group’s claim against Western Australia Conservation Council over uranium mining. Walkabout against uranium -month-long pilgrimage from Wiluna to Leonora to begin next month .
Northern Territory Norther Territory Aboriginal owners’ legal case: they wanted “low level nuclear waste dump”. Planning for the town of Jabiru to be rejuvenated as uranium mining ends. Northern Territory Aboriginal communities begin shift to hybrid solar and storage.
CLIMATE. The world watches Australia – saving the Barrier Reef, – or pandering to Adani coal baron? ANZ, Commonwealth Bank, Westpac and National Australia Bank, slash lending to coal miners.
Resignation of Australia’s Minister Representing The Coal Industry – Matt Canavan. There is no truth in the rumour that he is to be replaced by a lump of coal. Still, the replacement is Deputy Prime Minister Barbaby Joyce, so the rumour was close.
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This is truly frightening. I’m including a quote here that carries dangerous overtones, but it isn’t the worst in the article. From the article: “Since Perry was confirmed, his role has been ceremonial and bizarre. He pops up in distant lands and tweets in praise of this or that D.O.E. program while his masters inside the White House create budgets to eliminate those very programs. His sporadic public communications have had in them something of the shell-shocked grandmother trying to preside over a pleasant family Thanksgiving dinner while pretending that her blind-drunk husband isn’t standing naked on the dining-room table waving the carving knife over his head.”
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/07/department-of-energy-risks-michael-lewis.
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Glad that you picked up on this frightening article. Sometimes I think that we are all sleepwalking to disaster. Where I live – the burning topics of news are sport and celebrities. At times, I conclude that I am just a deranged outsider – to worry about the trivialities of climate and nuclear dangers.
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