The difficulty will be in selling it to the generally mathematically illiterate and generally emotive (thereby illogical) voter base, especially when up against the fear mongering, disinformative media/protestor class.
I sincerely hope there's the political will to make it happen.
Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. The "illiterate" voter base has been lied to their whole lives by the nuclear establishment which continues to do so. Yet over 60% of them support more nuclear despite seeing atrociously expensive flops. If nuclear were as cheap as it should be, that number would be over 80%.
The problem lies elsewhere. We need to stop the establishment from lying. This problem was top down, brought on by the supposedly mathematically literate, a bunch of PhD's, but really very emotive elite to stop nuclear weapons testing, and then morphed into a employment program for college graduates who did not ahve the guts to takes their "skills" to the market. These are the "literates" who have to change or be pushed aside.
We have to overcome the media hurdle. The squeaky wheel gets the grease, and the NGO and often government funded protesters (who will be so well covered by the stuck-in-the-60s, green-is-good-unless-it's-nuclear establishment) will squeak to the point of being deafening to the multitude of politicians afraid of losing their seats.
Hence, the political will I hope for.
I'm not disagreeing with you at all; I just follow politics and see how rarely trends are bucked.
The difficulty will be in selling it to the generally mathematically illiterate and generally emotive (thereby illogical) voter base, especially when up against the fear mongering, disinformative media/protestor class.
I sincerely hope there's the political will to make it happen.
Joshua,
Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. The "illiterate" voter base has been lied to their whole lives by the nuclear establishment which continues to do so. Yet over 60% of them support more nuclear despite seeing atrociously expensive flops. If nuclear were as cheap as it should be, that number would be over 80%.
The problem lies elsewhere. We need to stop the establishment from lying. This problem was top down, brought on by the supposedly mathematically literate, a bunch of PhD's, but really very emotive elite to stop nuclear weapons testing, and then morphed into a employment program for college graduates who did not ahve the guts to takes their "skills" to the market. These are the "literates" who have to change or be pushed aside.
We have to overcome the media hurdle. The squeaky wheel gets the grease, and the NGO and often government funded protesters (who will be so well covered by the stuck-in-the-60s, green-is-good-unless-it's-nuclear establishment) will squeak to the point of being deafening to the multitude of politicians afraid of losing their seats.
Hence, the political will I hope for.
I'm not disagreeing with you at all; I just follow politics and see how rarely trends are bucked.
Keep the blogs coming, more truth is the only path to progress brother.