22/05/2007, 22/05/2007 - News
There is much debate at the moment about future energy resources. I remember when Chapelcross was built, a family friend who lived in Canonbie was a scientist there so my dad and I got a personal tour round and into the hub of things. It was pretty impressive to a young teenager to see the such new technology......am I so impressed now? Well the truth is I don't know enough about it to judge....I do know there is a problem with the waste it produces and I do know other things can be derived from it so I guess on balance I would at the very least be doubtful.
I didn't use to be anti WMD's but thanks to television and the devastation I saw in Iraq with ordinary conventional weapons I cannot even begin to think of what would happen if someone fired even ONE let along 40+ of these things, [which is what one of these subs can carry].....forget climate change there would be nothing left to save. As for the cost...how many could be cured of cancer.....how many more doctors....how many more schools or council houses could we have with that kind of money.....our money!.....do we in Scotland really want to be part of this obscenity?
What makes it even more scary is the loss of trust we have in our leading politicians and in the Intelligence service.....it reminds me a bit of the way fundamentalists operate...they only see what they want to see and don't take any regard for the full picture. Bush and Blair were on a mission and we have seen where that got us and we see see where it has taken Iraq.
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