Melseke: 1973

1973

January 9. I remember 1973 and the oil crisis and the ‘Carless Sundays’. We were scared and angry. There were intensive discussions on nuclear energy, on the Fusion technique that would be less dangerous than the currently applied techniques. There was awareness and willingness to solve the energy problem once and for all and we were prepared to pay a price for it. But since then political short term opportunism has turned on the lights, on every Motorway in the country, and all awareness and willingness has faded away. Our selective memory has forgotten 1973. I remember 1986 and Tsjernobyl and the nuclear disaster when the apocalypse appeared on our doorstep.

MELSEKE

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