Antinuclear

‘Tis the season to be fake about nuclear power, AI, plastic leaves, and a lot of other things

It was this charming picture of nuclear stooge Jennifer Granholm, on a background of plastic leaves, which prompted me to ponder on FAKENESS.

It really is an appropriate picture. She’s telling a lot of whopper lies about green nuclear energy as the cure for climate change.. And her cheating method is illustrated beautifully with those cheating plastic green leaves.

The picture popped up in Dawn Stover‘s superb article “AI goes nuclear“. Stover comprehensively explains the Big Tech Bros’ grandiose plans for spectacular growth of Artificial Intelligence, “hyperscale” data banks and big existing nuclear reactors, small not-yet-existing nuclear reactors, and not-yet existing nuclear fusion reactors.

Politicians, media and stooges like Jennifer Granholm go into orgasmic delight about all this excitement, and its undoubted progress for our lucky populace. But Stover reminds that:

“both the government and the tech industry are largely ignoring the known and significant downsides of nuclear power—including high costs, long construction times, accidents, nuclear weapons proliferation risks, and environmental contamination from uranium mining and radioactive waste disposal”.

It is so bizarre that the people are tamely allowing these tunnel-vision technopaths to run our energy systems, (and perhaps ultimately our lives) The most extreme sociopath of all, Elon Musk, is likely to be giving President Trump his orders, when that fateful new USA administration takes office. A government supposedly the servant of the American public, more likely to be the servant of very unreasonable “colonising Mars” ambitions, among the rest of the grandiose technology growth.

Fakeness has become so acceptable, as that green leaf wall above shows us. We know that plastic pollution is everywhere – in giant garbage gyres in the oceans, in tiny particles in our body organs. Yet we still accept more and more of fake plastic leaves, fake plastic Christmas trees, plastic everything.

There is a lot of fakery at this time – inordinate spending of money on completely unnecessary things, extravagant food and drink, and stuff in general – all of which is a pretty fake way to celebrate the birthday of Jesus – who taught ‘Do unto others as you would that they should do to you” . ‘Twould be less fake, if the prevailing Western culture were to make a special effort now, instead of consumer madness, -to help the disadvantaged, wherever they may be.

Most people are aware of the genuine Christmas message. Perhaps there will be a growing awareness of the culture of FAKE. Perhaps in 2025, there will be an awareness of the fakeness surrounding the “Tech Bros” and their nuclear+ AI obsession.

December 24, 2024 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized