Japan's timid coverage of Fukushima led this news anchor to revolt — and he's not alone (PRI)

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23. And how does that improve my life if they replace these "nukes" with coal and gas plants?

I live in potential fracking country and I'd rather not have very toxic and radioactive fracking wastes in my drinking water.

If I lived in coal country I'd rather not have very toxic and radioactive coal wastes in my air and my food and my drinking water.

My taxes pay for hot and cold wars in oil producing nations because the most terrifying thing imaginable to our leaders would be a decoupling of the dollar from the mighty engines of oil.

And all of us are beginning to feel the effects of greenhouse gases as the oceans rise and weather extremes become more common.

I've always stated my opinions very clearly here on DU. Our high energy industrial consumer society needs to be shut down. We can do it on our own terms or we can wait for nature to do it the old fashioned ways by disrupting our society and killing off large numbers of us.

In the history of this earth "growth" like we humans are experiencing always ends. We are not an exception to the rule.

I'm actually an absurdly optimistic sort because I believe we could devise an easy going, comfortable, low energy, high technology society.

But for now our economic definitions of "productivity" and "profit" are grossly ill-defined. The sort of "economic productivity" we currently worship is destroying both our natural environment and our humanity.