nuclear-news

Our stories aren’t the same but they rhyme.

They came to the desert to get the uranium. Tore up the ground, sucked up the water, blasted the mesa. Swept all the toxic tailings into a pile. Now the wind spreads deadly dust onto homes and streets and playgrounds. Onto vegetables and meat drying in the sun. Onto the lives and homes and bodies of the people. They took the uranium and left without a goodbye. They left the broken dam that once held the pond, now long since washed downstream past the homes of the people. Never told the people about the radium in the pond. That went downstream too. Sunk into the sand, hid amongst the rocks. Don’t listen to the clicking meter as you walk that streambed now, telling what’s left behind. You’ll only scare yourself. You’ll scare yourself enough to run. But you can’t run — you’re already home.

They came to town to get the gas. ……..

They came to the mountain to get the coal. ……http://scholarsandrogues.com/2014/05/28/uranium-natural-gas-coal-and-hydroelectric-are-driving-us-to-extinction/Scholars and Rgues