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By DON FITZ
http://counterpunch.org/fitz06272011.html
Humanity must decrease its use of energy. The decrease must be a lot (not a little bit) and it must happen soon. A failure to do so will lay the foundation for the destruction of human life by some combination of climate change and radiation.
How long will the disastrous consequences of Fukushima continue? A good estimate is about 4.5 billion years — the half life of uranium-238. [1] The March 11, 2011 meltdown sounded alarms that environmentalists have rung for over half a century. There is also a deeper green meaning: The limits of economic growth have long since passed and we need to design a world with considerably less stuff.
Nuclear power is based on lies
The industry claims that there is such a thing as a safe level of radiation and that nuclear production can be safe. Both are profoundly untrue.