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Vogon_Glory

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3. I'm one of those people who prefers to believe my lying eyes.

Reply to hunter (Reply #2)

Fri May 30, 2025, 07:24 PM

May 30

Case in point: photos of unremidiated strip-mined terrain (for coal) versus Pacific Island sites for nuclear weapons tests. While I am opposed to using and testing nuclear weapons, I can’t help but contrast the strip-mined desolation with the. Roaring jungles of those Pacific islands and the fact that so many of the ships sunk during operation crossroads are now (2010 onwards) splendid diving sites overrun with colorful reef fish undermine a lot of the death-lands forever-and-ever hysteria ginned up by anti-nuclear activists.

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I'd long suspected that the renewables movement was an outgrowth Vogon_Glory May 30 #1

I was recruited into the anti-nuclear movement by Helen Caldicott herself. hunter May 30 #2

I'm one of those people who prefers to believe my lying eyes. Vogon_Glory May 30 #3

Over the years, I have come to believe, that the antinuclear movement - to which I confess when I was young, stupid... NNadir May 30 #4