you have the confession: you haven't been following the Lynas story. I'm the small jaded by all the protesting upon one side as well as the posturing upon the other. That's not to say you do not care. It's usually to say I'm perplexing to figure out how to live but obsessing about everything. Please do not get me wrong. you conclude as well as applaud those who have been seeking to engage my courtesy about Lynas. I'm usually having the little down time, the little reflection time.
you recollect reading something by the historian Christopher Catherwood, the dilettante in eremite conflict, in which he lerned his thoughts upon "Islamic rage." He pronounced those who want to branch the flow of funds from the Middle East to terrorists should drive usually fuel-efficient vehicles.
you do not recollect all his arguments. you consider he basically pronounced he suspicion reducing personal consumption of fuel was the many in effect approach for Americans as well as others to tell their own governments they indispensable to quell the Saudi King from promoting anarchists. ['curb' in this context could include 'interfere in the affairs of an additional nation.']
When you was at University, you joked which the "Nuclear Power No Thanks" plaque upon the Citroen 2CV was the customary accessory. [The 2CV had the 9 horsepower engine, the little called it the food processor engine. The 2CV was an ingeniously designed, economical car.] The plaque covered the total door, as well as was placed upon both sides of the car.
you recollect the arguments for as well as against chief power. you took the course upon pick energy. Are you surpris! ed chief appetite was 'alternative energy'? It was. It was the late 70's. The Middle East oil conglomeration had brought the universe to it's knees. Nuclear appetite was harnessed to break the hold of the Middle East upon the world, by oil.
you studied the physics as well as engineering of chief reactors complicated water, fast breeder, etc. you watched as well as review the news. you schooled about risk evaluation. you schooled about the ponds for ducks as well as the fields for cows in as well as around chief facilities. you schooled about the reminders chief industry workers were constantly given about the great risks of harnessing chief energy, as well as the importance of putting people first.
you have followed the headlines about the massacre wrought by the earthquake as well as tsunami upon the chief appetite hire in Fukushima, Japan. you know the base means of the mess isn't chief power. It's people. More precisely, it's management as well as politicians clamouring to encounter the 'needs' of electorate as well as over-ruling the engineers.
you know chief appetite need not be dangerous. you know if the Japanese Energy authority had been headed by an fair Malaysian similar to Ani Arope (who was effectively sacked by Mahathir) the Fukushima mess would not have happened. Ani Arope would have quiescent prior to allowing things to deteriorate to such the state.
you have created prior to about Admiral Rickover as well as the reserve of American chief submarines. It's all about care as well as 'what people want.'
you have not review most of the commentary about Lynas. Perhaps someone has already suggested the base means of the Lynas controversy. First, the small about base causes.
you do not consider the day goes by at work when you am not involved in the little discussion about base cause. We ask 'Why' multiple times. When someone finds an unblocked package, you ask "why is the package unsealed?" If the answer is "the machine failed to si! gn it," you ask "why did the machine destroy to sign it?" We keep asking until you find the answer. Sometimes the answer is which in the paper production factory thousands of miles divided it is probable to run the routine with the valve open when it should be closed. My point is this: the base means is mostly far away.
In my opinion, the base means of the Lynas problem is the 'need' for all kinds of gadgets which need the 'rare earths' which have been to be produced by the Lynas plant: disk drives, cellphones, LCD television sets. As Marxists would say, the base means is the stretch from the people who furnish the singular earths used to build the gadgets you 'need.' [Isn't it ironic which the protesters rely so most upon cellphones?]
you consider it critical which the singular earths have been 'needed' because you 'need' gadgets yes, together with the ones invented by which demigod, Steve Jobs, in the temple of Apple as well as you need them cheaply.
you consider the base means is which you provide China as the source of cheap, unessential work as well as as the republic where controls upon reserve as well as pollution have been not enforced with the same commitment as in countries similar to the USA as well as Australia. It's the price you compensate for 'cheap gadgets.'
you consider the base means is the failure to fastener with this brutal fact: 95 % of the world's supply of singular earths comes from China ironically the 'communist' nation where workers, the proletariat, have been ostensible to be king.
you consider the base means is the maturity of Australian voters: they will go to the polls as well as boot out politicians who will concede Lynas to operate the singular earths plant in Australia. you consider the base means is the double-standards of Australians: they have the dirt (earth), they will profit from it, but usually at risk to populations alternative than their own. Australians will add to the CO footprint of the earth by shippin! g huge v olumes of earth across the oceans, Australians will talk of shipping back radioative rubbish to Australia, but Australians will not grant the permit for the rubbish to be returned to Australia.
you am surprised UMNO-BN politicians have been not spinning this story: "Malaysians have been willing to share the burden with China. Malaysians have been willing to do what Australia as well as alternative developed nations won't. Malaysians have been willing to take upon the burden: you will accept one third of the worldwide risks of rare-earth processing."
you consider the base means of the Malaysian dilemma over Lynas is which the supervision you put in bureau thinks some-more similar to the supervision of China than similar to the supervision of Australia. What do you have of people who suffer the benefits, but cite which alternative people do the dangerous work as well as bear the risks? Do you want to "drive the 2CV"?
Rama Ramanathan reads Malaysia Chronicle
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