August 31, 2007

MEMO TO MAHMOUD:

'End of our international isolation of the past few decades' (Dr Manmohan Singh, August 31, 2007, Rediff)

Why do we place so much importance on nuclear energy? I have no doubt whatsoever that the sustainability of our long-term economic growth is critically dependent on our ability to meet our energy requirements of the future. When a country of the size of India begins to grow at the rate of 9% per annum, with the prospect of even higher rates of growth, energy becomes a critical issue.

A lot has been written and said on what our energy requirements will be. A few simple truths stare us in the face. First, our proven resources of coal, oil, gas and hydropower are totally insufficient to meet our requirements. Second, we do not enjoy the luxury of an either�or choice. India needs energy from all known and likely sources of energy. Third, the energy we generate has to be affordable, not only in terms of its financial cost, but in terms of the cost to our environment.

Nuclear power is recognised as an important and environmentally benign constituent of the overall energy mix. There is today talk the world over of a nuclear renaissance and we cannot afford to miss the bus or lag behind these global developments.


Our friends get to indulge their nuke fetishes.

Posted by Orrin Judd at August 31, 2007 10:51 AM
Comments

There are benefits to being our friend - as there ought to be consequences to being our enemy.

Now, if someone could inform the State Dept. of that, please?

Posted by: Mikey [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 31, 2007 12:36 PM

Being our friend brings such benefits that it is amazing that everyone is not. It is not logical or rational to be our enemy yet people and "leaders" not only become enemies but glory in it. Strange.

Posted by: Bob at August 31, 2007 1:00 PM

Bob: You are describing the insanity of Boxerism. It is so unhinged that we find it hard to grasp.

It phenomenon calls to mind a Polish Grandmother story, wherein God, walking through the forest comes across the Devil, sitting gnawing on a piece of darkened meat, "What are you doing?" God asks. "Eating my heart," the Devil answers. "It is very bitter, but I like it because it is mine."

It is essentially maladaptive, an evolutionary crime, to cleave to dysfunctional folkways out of nostalgic ethnocentrism. That is what Boxerism consists of and the sentence for that crime is cultural death.

Posted by: Lou Gots at August 31, 2007 7:04 PM
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