The legacy of Tchernobyl: The cost of “cheap” and “safe” nuclear energy…
After Chernobyl, Fukushima…
And after Fukushima…?
The incurably wounded, burnt or maimed
Present a sight that should make us ashamed;
So dreadfully battered, mangled, filled with scars,
As if crushed to a pulp with iron bars,
Unfit to attend to any vital need,
To rise unaided, ease themselves or feed;
Acutely conscious minds in fleshy tombs,
Or monstrous freaks born of inhuman wombs;
Their life one long-drawn night of agony,
Allowed to feel but not to hear or see,
The face a shapeless lump devoid of eyes,
And mouth a hole through which the spirit cries;
The types of human wretches who alive
Although dead to the world, in pain, survive
Out of the victims of a modern war,
Maintained in strict seclusion from us far.
This is the mockery to which, with thought
And care, civilization has been brought,
Setting for many years a hell ablaze
On earth to live in, shudder at, and gaze
On ghastly suffering and appalling wrecks,
As if a vampirish seductress becks
The gaudy caravan by devious means,
To taste the horror of infernal scenes.
Gopi Krishna –The Shape of Events to Come
www.gopikrishna.net
Please see the following slide pictures below and think about the "cheap" and "safe" nuclear energy next time you switch on the lights in your home...
http://inmotion.magnumphotos.com/essay/chernobyl
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