The new energy crisis

The sunday morning news shows all talked about energy and nuclear power, what to do, how we know, how long an issue. They went back to the 1970s when there were the first power plants, and the advent of the anti nuclear movement. The reactor in Vermont, the first to be build about 40 years ago, is the same design as the ill-fated Japanese power plant. How safe are we. Can we withstand danger. Will our lifestyle allow Americans to ponder the abolition of relatively safe, carbonless nuclear power, in the wake of burning more toxic, more costly, less available oil. Now there are some patrimonial echoes of global warming. Suddenly everyone is in an uproar. Where have they been for the last 30 years? No one wants to go backwards, understandably. But we are at a crossroads. What do we do? Will this crisis stimulate the world to reckon with the inconvenient truth, and finally tackle global warming, and CURB our expectations and our consumption? That will be a difficult task to wean us off of all the electronic gadgetry we are now addicted to, which was non-existent 25 years ago. it is an interesting dilemma for the world populations to grapple with. Who will take the lead towards a simpler life, which may just be the way to sustain our planet?