Why do something about problems that will eventually kill us — when it is more fun making cutting judgments about other people?

© 2017 Peter Free

 

25 August 2017

 

 

Serious comedian John Oliver — recently drew attention to the United States' nuclear waste problem

 

He said:

 

 

One out of three Americans lives within 50 miles of high-level nuclear waste, some of which, like plutonium, is lethally dangerous and will be around for an incredible long time.

 

© 2017 Stefanie Spear, One of the Biggest American Health Hazards No One Is Talking About, AlterNet (22 August 2017) (with embedded video)

 

 

Oliver's presentation is worth watching. He is a master at getting to crux of important matters.

 

 

I addressed the same danger in 2010 and 2011

 

Concluding that:

 

 

Dysfunctional politics have become the bane of rational governance.

 

 

Fukushima's ongoing nuclear disaster has not motivated the slightest American movement regarding cleaning up our own massively dangerous messes. Which have increasingly been hanging around in careless ways and places for at least 75 years.

 

 

The moral? — If something is vitally problematic, American society will characteristically avoid doing anything at all to fix it

 

Do you wonder why growing numbers of people look to sober Germany for free world leadership?

 

Stephan Richter's December 2014 observation holds true:

 

 

[I]ndications are that America is not a serious country.

 

 

It is challenging to argue objectively with his statement.