“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Slouching Towards Yucca Mountain—Hyperobjects, the Movie


I got news of a movie being made about the storage of nuclear materials underground in Yucca Mountain, one of the worst ideas ever devised by humans. Looks like a worthy cause at the very least if you feel like supporting it.

It strikes me that we still find it extremely hard to talk about what to do with our waste. There is no “away” yet we are still not quite ready to do the right thing. Which is? Monitored retrievable overground storage of nuclear materials, forever. It's called Nuclear Guardianship.

2 comments:

zareen said...

Oh, but Tim, really. Nuclear Guardianship might, you know, inconvenience the ruling class. Can't have that.

Timothy Morton said...

Of course Zachary--I'd forgotten about that. We'd better settle for plutonium silverware from here on out.