No safe level. Photo: Jon Åslund/Flickr CC
Once again, it appears we need a “conspiracist” — in this case, the indefatigable Alan Watt — to remind us that the National Academy of Sciences long ago stated the obvious: That there is no safe level for radiation exposure.
Listen to the archive of Alan’s April 8 radio program (you’ll find it via the link, below), and re-remember your basic biophysics.
Alan always writes a wee poem to accompany his archive posts. Here’s a portion:
Power-Elite and Scientific Combination, Guaranteeing Life’s Ruination:
There’s Radiation Swirling Around Each Head
It Will Add Many to the Great Book of the Dead
Over Many Years Propagandists Will Shout, Blustering, Denying the Effects of Fallout
Whilst Elitists, Comfortable in City-Size Bunker
And the Common Fearful in Cellars Hunker…
via Cutting Through the Matrix with Alan Watt – Clearing the rubbish from the road to reality.
Mark,
Kindly report when notable billionaires start disappearing from their day jobs. Or, you know, top nuclear scientists and climatologists.
I don’t have an underground bunker but I can at least cash in my 401K and spend it on hallucinogens before the rose breaks free of the cross and we shuffle this mortal coil.
We’ve conveniently forgotten about this issue because, frankly, it is beyond us. With half-lives in the millions of years, radioactive elements are essentially beyond the capacity of modern industrial society to safely deal with. There is no way around this underlying reality.