Reprinted from the Winter Solstace 1990 EV Will and Word The Hidden Agenda Behind the Pro-Nukes Position The reason that certain special interest groups remain in favor of nuclear energy rather than other saner alternatives no matter how much evidence they must deny is the one they leave unspoken. These guys don't just want to be a bunch of solar panel makers, they want to be the ones who can turn all the juice off if they feel like! Even most pro nuclear folks don't even know that. Certainly it is hard to imagine more than a fraction of people wanting to decide how we will live based on the control addiction of these few people. We will not engage in debate with Pro Nuclear Forces. They are acting on an agenda that has nothing, nothing at all to do with the substance of the debate. Their tame intellectuals and scientists are the pawns or confederates of people whose goals are based almost exclusively on short term maintenance of their personal power bases. These people have no real concern for the long term results of their actions that can compete with their instincts for dominance and control. It's just a matter of priorities, after all. Our more immediate concern are the ways in which we live our own lives that abet and aid the agenda of these anal-retentive. What do we waste? Waste is a sin. Do you waste food, electricity, clothes, paper (We computer people know about wasting paper!)? Wasting these things makes it all the easier for you to waste some stuff that is of personal interest to you. Like time for example. Are you making that trip to the local ecology center? Are you pushing your local government for a civic recycling program? Are you willing to face your own feelings of horror at the immanent death , or radical reduction at least, of our biosphere given the present course of industrial society? Are you wasting your time on such feelgood nonsense as Animal Rights when so many Human Rights are not recognized by so many industries and governments? Are you willing to consider that this whole business of throwing paint of people's mink coats is to be a dupe of the power elite who'd rather have you doing something like that rather than really challenging them? Bothering to invest your money in stocks of companies that have been audited for their ecological responsibility? What are WE, oh so right-thinking ecologically minded people doing to help the planet-rapers? What are YOU doing, right where you are sitting now, to help them? Here's information you need for changing your day-to-day habits so you don't aid the ecovampires! Shopping For A Better World A Quick and Easy Guide to socially responsible supermarket shopping (This little beauty rates the major manufacturers on 11 crucial ecological issues. Its put out by the Council on Economic Priorities, a non-profit outfit.) The 1991 pocket sized issue for is only $5.95! Send to: CEP 30 Irving Place, New York, NY 10003 Tell them who sent you! A. P. Benjamin SEX IS PEACE TRUE WILL NOT SLAVERY CONSCIOUSNESS IS STRENGTHtral Call to others. 6. Q: What