Climate threatens 2 nuke power plants in Nebraska (focus on Fort Calhoun) & Los Alamos nuke weapons lab. Will Fukushima nuclear disaster prod bankruptcy of the U.S.? And Conrad Schmidt, Bill Rees on "De-Growth" - shrinking the economy to save us.
Nuclear reports by Alex and Kate Smith for Radio Ecoshock.
Recordings of Conrad Schmidt and Dr. Bill Rees (co-inventor of the ecological footprint) at De-Growth Vancouver Conference June 3, 2011, with permission.
End song "Mother Earth" by Shane Philip (Canadian content)
5 second clip from IBMTV.
Also available as 2 29 minute segments (posted below) to allow Radio Stations time for ID and/or announcements. Each 29 segment could be run as a separate program.
Blog for this program at ecoshock.info
Notes on Part 1:
We look at the root causes of the 3 nuclear disasters now threatening America.
Scientists predicted the increased humidity that led to this year's massive snowfall, and the floods surrounding the Fort Calhoun and Coopers Point nuclear generating stations.
They also predicted the drying in the South West that drove the drought behind massive fires in the South.
Now tens of thousands of barrels of plutonium-laced waste is only a few miles from an out-on-control fire, at the Los Alamos nuclear weapons lab.
A report on what happened and why.
Includes a profile of the politicians and owners of the American nuclear operator Entergy, who operate Fort Calhoun, plus the Indian Point reactor 35 miles N. of New York City, and the Vermont Yankee plant the State wants closed.
No, it is not Mr. Burns.
Then the big picture at Fukushima. Why has the U.S. government downplayed the triple melt-down in Japan, and left troops possibly in harm's way? Why won't the U.S. test for radiation in fish, or the air?
Did America make big concessions to Japan to avoid their cashing in $700 billion in U.S. treasuries to pay for the cleanup? Is everybody hiding an international bankruptcy?
Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of Japanese continue in the world's largest experiment of living in a nuclear waste zone. The scandal of Tokyo secrets, and the banks who want it kept quiet.
Notes on Part 2:
Should we wait for the oil to run out? Food to run out? For collapse?
Or can we plan our way back down, through power-down, simplification, localization?
You hear two speakers from the opening panel at the latest De-Growth Conference, on June 3rd 2011 in Vancouver, Canada.
Dr. Bill Rees, co-inventor of the ecological footprint concept, and Conrad Schmidt, author and film maker, founder of the Work Less Party.
Both of these men are annoying. Professor Rees listens and looks at all the schemes offered as solutions.
Then he measures the actual results. Sometimes that isn't so pleasing, especially when we had such good intentions.
Conrad Schmidt can look a paradox in the eye. Does a hybrid car really save any energy? Is cheaper alternative energy really good for the planet? Rude questions answered.
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