And Then, A Comment...

Thanks to the good Ripper leaving a comment to the last post, I can cunningly post it here thus making it two posts in a row; a first for a long time. Stay calm while checking-out the video below.

   “Jeez Mac, I knew what those song lyrics were about in the 80's, but it was too early back then to link things. There was only the up/coming Greens (not sure if the party existed at the time but they were present). You see, this whole mess was started by Thatcher - there was an energy crisis caused by the miner's strike and oil prices/unrest in the Middle East. Therefore Thatcher saw the only way forward as being nuclear. At the time there was a batshit crazy Swedish guy who was saying that CO2 in the atmosphere had a direct effect on global temperature. Thatcher took advantage of that to promote nuclear, and she commissioned a scientific study to come up with the desired outcome. That played right into the hands of the tree huggers and the rest is history.
   Of course I didn't join the dots until recently, when I saw a Dispatches documentary a few years ago. If you have an hour to spare and you enjoy a good piss boil, its well worth watching if you haven't already seen it. Its from 2007 but still as relevant today.”

           
      
Quote;  Henry Rollins.

“Watching a documentary with people hacking their way through some polar wasteland is merely a visual. Actually trying to deal with cold that can literally kill you is quite a different thing.”