16 song vinyl LP with thick booklet of lyrics and artwork.
Includes unlimited streaming of Turn Back The Tide Of Bigotry
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Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
Comes in a printed A5 envelope, with an A5 lyric booklet. 16 song album.
Includes unlimited streaming of Turn Back The Tide Of Bigotry
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
ships out within 3 days
£3GBP
about
In this modern world, which is looking for a low-carbon future, the idea of generating power from nuclear fission had become very fashionable again. We hadn’t had any accidents since Chernobyl 25 years ago, and people began to think that nuclear power was actually very safe. That is until the Japanese tsunami in 2011, and the resulting accident at the Fukushima nuclear power plant.
In reality, of course, Fukushima was, quite literally, a disaster waiting to happen. Nuclear fission power stations are inherently risky because the produce highly radioactive nuclear waste which is hazardous to most forms of life. Such waste has to be handled, transported, reprocessed and stored. None of these processes can ever by entirely free of the risk of some form of accident, and when such accidents do occur the highly dangerous nature of the waste itself creates potentially catastrophic situations.
Even the simple storage of nuclear waste is a significant problem. High-level nuclear wastes, as produced by nuclear power stations, have to be safely stored for thousands of years. Can you imagine that? Our activities today are producing something which will require monitoring in some form for over 1,000 years. What sort of society will it be then? Could you imagine if, when the Normans had invaded Britain in 1066, they’d created a dangerous substance and buried it that we still had to be wary of and monitor even today? What are we thinking of to pass on such a burden to future generations? And how could that ever be accurately costed to show that nuclear power was economical?
Some people though are still unconvinced and believe that a vast expansion of nuclear power generation is the only way to a low-carbon energy future. They believe that the risks are still worth taking. But are they? Traditional energy generation comes from non-renewable fossil fuels, but the uranium needed for nuclear power generation is also a finite natural resource which would probably run out in around 50 years if an expanded nuclear power programme was established.
Nuclear power stations take many years to commission and are then expensive to decommission. And if the technology could only be used for 50 years then it’s not the answer to creating a sustainable energy future – it would only be a temporary stop-gap, and what would be the point of that? Instead we need to invest in renewable technologies – harnessing the free energies that nature provides all around us in the shape of the sun, the wind and the sea. Such technologies are entirely safe and quick to establish, so let’s get on with it now. Of course they won’t generate as much energy as we’ve become accustomed to using, but we need to learn to value energy more and stop wasting it. It’s a no-brainer, really.
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A future generation, or nuclear contamination? What do you want?
🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 Loved this band for decades and it's great they're cracking on with the good work both creative and beautifully pleasant with a new vocalist.
Good shit innit 👏
I love the buzzy bee guitar riff on Plight Of The Bumble Bee, excellent stuff 👏
Excellent feckin album.
Money Flows is simply outstanding.
Now crank it up 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 🏴☠️ Mikey T. Chas The Dog And Momo The Cat 🏴☠️
Dead Cross, Retox, and Qui members dish out subversive hardcore with an indignant smirk; come for the riffs, stay for the synth experiments. Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 31, 2024
