Earth is more than a rock. Gaia, or Mother Nature, has gifted us with bountiful energy. The ocean currents rage ceaselessly throughout the globe. The air whips through the atmosphere, sometimes strong enough to level cities. Underground, the planet contains so much energy that it rips through mountains to escape. Yet humanity’s favorite source of power is just burning things. Like a drunken Viking horde, we set fire to everything we can. We burn coal and natural gas for electricity, we burn oil for commuting, we burn tires and garbage for nothing more than we don’t know what to do with it.
We live in an age of science. Humanity has unlocked the power of the atom. We have broken the universe down into the tiniest particle where matter and energy are interchangeable. Harnessing the passive energy of isotopic radiation is something we’ve been doing for nearly a century, but it’s still treated as our shameful sin. It is the villain of our movies, like Godzilla and Men at Work. But is it bad? Or is the caveman inside of us merely afraid because we can’t see the flames?
Enrich your understanding as Mat and Veronique drop the bomb of truth onto Nuclear Power.
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