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The earthquake and subsequent tsunami in Japan raised new concerns about the risk of another nuclear reactor disaster.  The explosion of the FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR POWER PLANT gives our citizens cause to re-examine the risk assumed by the public. At this writing, the full extent of the damage to the plant, the community, and the environment is unknown - it will take years.

At the same time concerns over the high risks associated with extracting natural gas and as noted in a Financial Times article is "energy that comes from the same place as our drinking water. Extracting it had better be safe. The political fault lines over hydraulic fracturing (hence the term fracking) have been easy to predict for anyone paying attention to the controversies over climate change and genetically modified organisms. France’s national assembly voted to ban fracking while in the US its been full steam ahead in 32 states. These are high risk alternative energy sources. 

 

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OmeAkaEhekatl Erick Gonzalez is founder and spiritual leader of Earth Peoples United whose missio

OmeAkaEhekatl Erick Gonzalez, founder and spiritual leader of Earth Peoples United, connects people to the natural and spiritual world. Learn more at earthpeoplesunited.org.

Gonzalez was a presenter at the Earth Day 2012 Conference in Portland, co-sponsored by the Earth & Spirit Council and Portland Community College (PCC) Sylvania. This excerpt is from his taped reply to the question: "What gives us hope and heart to keep working on what is best for our Earth in the face of difficult changes?"

Videotaped by Tom Hopkins, this response was added to the EarthSayers.tv "voices of sustainability" collection by Curator Ruth Ann Barrett. Gonzalez begins by reminding us that "we are all in the same boat."

EarthSayer Erick Gonzalez

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