If the Germans can do it, why can't the United States?
What makes us so uniquely incompetent?
What is it about our country that our leaders would risk our lives like Japan's leaders?
Why are Americans condemned to live under the shadow of nuclear power while Germans are not?
Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative-led coalition announced plans yesterday to close all Germany's atomic power plants by 2022, in a move that put the seal on a dramatic policy U-turn in the immediate aftermath of Japan's Fukushima nuclear disaster.
The decision – which makes Germany the biggest industrial power to completely renounce atomic power as an energy source – will include a planned 10 per cent reduction in electricity consumption and a doubling of renewable energy sources to 35 per cent by 2020.
Why must Americans live under the shadow of corporations who we already know have and WILL AGAIN cut corners and put our lives at risk of a nuclear incident?
The population of Germany is about 1/4 of ours. It's not that much smaller. It's not an excuse.
Why won't our leaders lead on the issue of ending dangerous, dirty, expensive nuclear power? Why are our descendants condemned to likely suffer Japan's fate while Germany passes us by?