By: Ahmed ELNAHAS – Montopoli, October 6th 2013.
I have just
listened to President Adly Mansour’s address to the nation commemorating the 40th
October War day. His announcement about the Dab’aa Nuclear Reactor project
alarmed me a lot.. More than the Suez Canal ambitious investments plan. And I
still can’t find any valid explanation for the necessity that every
administration must hold on to a “Giant
National Projects for the welfare of our generations to come” so that we
end up drowning deeper in more debts to finance unnecessary projects, or at
least not of a prior importance.
The High
Dam, The Toushky Valley, the subways and many more projects which couldn’t be a
priority for a needy and ignorant population like ours.. Instead of the Nuclear
with all its risks (Chernobyl and Fukushima are still close)
not only the structural ones but as well those environmental and ecological;
for until today no one have ever confirmed the existence of a safe nuclear wastes disposal, or
thehealth hazards level on human and other beings tightly connected inside the
food chain and the life cycle.
If we
must acquire more debts to create energy,
wouldn’t it be more convenient for a country blessed with a year-long
sunny climate to use sun-rays as the guaranteed continuous and renewable source
to obtain much secure and clean energies; through serious projects and
enhancing scientific research and creating real job opportunities for thousands
of our graduates in the fields of solar energy and related feeding industries.
Can’t we
produce that relatively simple technology and make it our strategic objective
to cover the entire domestic family needs with that safe energy in say 15 years
time? How many families will settle down serenely from such a wide range of job
offers boom on a national scale? They have already done that since three
decades in the Scandinavian states, in Germany and in Austria, where they see
the sun 38% of the year!! Why not us?
I’m sorry
my friends but I can’t grasp the twisted logic driving us always to enjoy self
scourging or auto-flagellation.. Have we lost our common sense? Not to
realise that it’s all a political game and it has nothing to
do with the “welfare of our generations to
come”.. Because if that is the objective than why not try the renewable
sources of energy instead? Their results are immediate and their social impact
is spotless.
The
Muslim Brotherhood didn’t really care about Egypt or the collectivity of its
population.. And now I fear that we’re about to experience a “Déjà
Vu” phenomena that will surely sedate our feelings and contain our
hopes, reducing Democracy into the freedom for exchanging jokes in public and
practicing sarcasm on opponents in Parliament and public offices through
oriented media. So that questions like who will finance, who will build, and by
what confirmed scientific guarantees; will all remain unanswered.
And the
old game of cartels and monopolies will continue under the umbrella of a
severely controlled and carefully censored Democracy..
If the
northern Europe countries paid corrupt leaders and officials of the third world
to dispose their radioactive wastes (among other hazardous industrial, pharmaceutical and medical
scoriae) in their countries; who will we pay to dispose of
ours?
All
because the people everywhere have always proved to bear a very short memory.. “People
crawl on their stomachs”.. Unfortunately, whoever made that statement he have certainly centered the
bull’s eye.
Pass On The Word.
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