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Atomic Footprints
Australia is on the verge of the largest expansion on its nuclear industry. Booting John Howard and the Liberal government out of office might not in itself be enough to stop all of it, but it would be a good start.
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| Produced by | Pip Starr |
| Directed by | Pip Starr |
| Contact | write the producer |
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| Produced | Sep 21, 2007 |
| Distributor | www.starr.tv |
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100 000 years ago we were just becomming human. Modern humans were just evolving and spreading accross the world. In 100,000 years from now the radioactive wastes produced to make todays hot shower and cup of tea will still be toxic.
Some of the wastes left behind by the nuclear industry, like the tailings at Roxby Downs in South Australia, will still be radioactive when our planet ceases to exist. It is hard to think of an act of greater vandalism, to ourselves and to all future life on our planet.
John Howards longevity as leader of Australia does not quite compare to the logevity of nuclear waste, but it's starting to feel like it. If he is re-elected and allowed to continue with his push for more uranium mining, more nuclear power and a radioactive waste dump, then his legacy will be one of uncountable years of toxic waste, not just numerous years of racism, squander and neglect.
As ever, there is only one solution to the problem of weapons proliferation and radioactive waste - to leave the Uranium in the Ground.
Atomic footprints uses archival footage, some of my own archives and some recently recorded footage to examine the nuclear fuel chain, and some of the reasons why we should continue to oppose it.
Produced with the assistance of Friends of the Earth and the Beyond Nuclear Inititive. Voice over by Dave Sweeney, Original Music by Mark Daniel, Animations by Dermot Egan.
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There is a tendency by nuclear and hi-tech fanatics to claim they will not "be around" when extremely long-deadly nuclear waste continues to wreak its havoc and death knell.
This is not true.
These same nuclear and hi-tech fanatics could discover themselves to be the Children of the Future,
living what was wreaked in previous lifetimes as people.
Many of us do not wish to live as any kind of organism in a future lifetime or deathtime by a radioactive garbage dump.