Nuclear Dumps

This week this item was in the news, no surprises, it was expected, but still I feel the grief of what will take place.

http://au.news.yahoo.com/080610/21/177mn.html

The politicians are using typical polly-waffle to avoid answering direct questions from the media, but it does appear most likely that a nuclear waste dump will be built in the Northern Territory. This spells disaster for this country.

Helen Caldicott http://www.helencaldicott.com/ has been a long time activist/educator in the field of nuclear power, warning of the dangers of it’s use. Here’s what she wrote last year about the situation in Australia:

http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=6177&page=1

Andrew Bartlett, of the Australian Democrat Party, has this to say on nuclear disarmament:

http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=7495

Here is how I am feeling today:

Nuclear dumps

Nuclear dumps? What does it mean?
Does it mean it’s to be here
For thousand of years?
For millions of years, the land hoarded it
Where it lay away from the people.
But the people got ‘smart’ or so they say
And learned to dig it all out
To send it away.
Now it’s come back, in manner much changed
And so much more dangerous than ever before.

The Elders they knew of the dangers
Their Law it forbid
To dig in the land, and anger the Mother.
She, they knew, had told them quite clear –
Now you leave well alone, this is not for you here.
But the Elders have gone, their words are forgotten
Ignored or decried and the cultures gone rotten.

More greed it spreads, more sickness it brings,
The large gaping holes from whence it came
Lies scarring the land, and scarring the people.
These gougings have a cost which is beyond measure
For as you hurt the land you hurt the Mother
And you hurt yourself.

And now I am told the battle is lost
The warriors like Helen are mostly forgot.
Governments, demon-a-crazy we have
To plunder to kill whatever they want.
The battle is lost, the war is not.
The war shall go on despite this loss
For if they win the Darkness will descend
The Light will be gone.